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7811. SENATE (United States), Firmness.—

The senate alone remained undismayed
to the last. Firm to their purposes,
regardless of public opinion, and more disposed
to coerce than to court it, not a man
of their majority gave way in the least.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. iv, 330. Ford ed., vii, 447.
(Pa., May. 1800)