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6746. POLITICS, Propriety and.—

I have
had a proposition to meet Mr. [Patrick] Henry this month, to confer on the subject
of a convention, to the calling of which he
is now become a convert; * * * but the
impropriety of my entering into consultation
on a measure in which I would take no part,
is a permanent one.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. iv, 118. Ford ed., vii, 11.
(M. April. 1795)