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8434. THIRD TERM, Jefferson urged to accept.—

I am panting for retirement, but
am as yet nearly two years from that goal.
The general solicitations I have received to
continue another term give me great consolation,
but considerations public as well as
private determine me inflexibly on that measure.—
To Marquis de Lafayette. Ford ed., ix, 67.
(W. May. 1807)