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7335. REPUBLICANISM (Partisan), Benefits of.—

If we are left in peace, I have
no doubt the wonderful turn in the public
opinion now manifestly taking place and
rapidly increasing, will * * * become so
universal and so weighty, that friendship
abroad and freedom at home will be firmly
established by the influence and constitutional
powers of the people at large.—
To General Kosciusko. Washington ed. iv, 295.
(Pa., Feb. 1799)