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6977. PRIVATE LIFE, Freedom of.—

I
am now a private man, free to express my
feelings, and their expression will be estimated
at neither more nor less than they
weigh, to wit, the expressions of a private
man. Your struggles for liberty keep alive
the only sparks of sensation which public
affairs now excite in me.—
To M. Odit. Washington ed. iv, 123.
(M. Oct. 1795)