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8435. THIRD TERM, Massachusetts and.—

I derive great personal consolation
from the assurances in your friendly letter,
that the electors of Massachusetts would still
have viewed me with favor as a candidate for
a third Presidential term. But the duty of
retirement is so strongly impressed on my
mind, that it is impossible for me to think of
that.—
To James Sullivan. Washington ed. v, 252.
(W. March. 1808)