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6739. POLITICS, A maxim in.—

The
maxim of your letter “slow and sure” is not
less a good one in agriculture than in politics.
I sincerely wish it may extricate us
from the event of a war, if this can be done
saving our faith and our rights.—
To President Washington. Washington ed. iv, 106. Ford ed., vi, 510.
(M. May. 1794)