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8432. THIRD TERM, Duty and.—[continued].

Having myself highly
approved the example of an illustrious


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predecessor, in voluntarily retiring from a
trust, which, if too long continued in the same
hands, might become a subject of reasonable
uneasiness and apprehension, I could not
mistake my own duty when placed in a similar
situation.—
R. to A. Connecticut Republicans. Washington ed. viii, 140.
(1808)