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6909. PRESIDENCY, Jefferson, Madison and.—[further continued] .

The honeymoon would
be as short in that case [election to the
Presidency] as in any other, and its moments
of ecstacy would be ransomed by years of
torment and hatred.—
To Edward Rutledge. Washington ed. iv, 152. Ford ed., vii, 93.
(M. Dec. 1796)