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6910. PRESIDENCY, Jefferson, Madison and.—[further continued].

You, who know me,
know that my private gratifications would be
most indulged by that issue, which should
leave me most at home. If anything supersedes
this propensity, it is merely the desire
to see this government brought back to its
republican principles.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. iv, 309. Ford ed., vii, 402.
(Pa., Jan. 1800)