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7111. PUBLICITY, Demanded.—

The
Journals of Congress not being printed
earlier, gives more uneasiness than I would


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wish ever to see produced by any act of that
body, from whom alone, I know, our salvation
can proceed. In our [Virginia] Assembly,
even the best affected think it an indignity
to freemen to be voted away, life and
fortune, in the dark.—
To John Adams. Ford ed., ii, 130.
(Wg. 1777)