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7754. SECRETARIES OF LEGATION, Training.—

I explained to you in my former
letter the principles on which [the appointment
of Mr. Sumter to be Secretary of Legation] was made, to wit, * * * to teach for public
service in future such subjects as from their
standing in society, talents, principles and fortune,
may probably come into the public councils.—
To Robert R. Livingston. Ford ed., viii, 30.
(1801)