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6803. POST OFFICE, Political spies in.—[further continued]..

I dare not through the
channel of the post hazard a word to you on the
subject of the [Presidential] election. Indeed
the interception and publication of my letters
expose the republican cause, as well as myself
personally, to such obloquy that I have
come to a resolution never to write another sentence
of politics in a letter.—
To James Madison. Ford ed., vii, 484.
(W. Feb. 1801)