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6777. POSTERITY, Sacrifices for.—[continued].

It has been a great
solace to me to believe that you are engaged in
vindicating to posterity the course we have
pursued for preserving to them, in all their
purity, the blessings of self-government, which
we had assisted, too, in acquiring for them.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. vii, 435. Ford ed., x, 378.
(M. 1826)