8351. TAXES, Politics and suppression of.—
Bitter men are not pleased with the suppression
of taxes. Not daring to condemn
the measure, they attack the motive; and too
disingenuous to ascribe it to the honest one
of freeing our citizens from unnecessary
burthens and unnecessary systems of office,
they ascribe it to a desire of popularity. But
every honest man will suppose honest acts to
flow from honest principles, and the rogues
may rail without intermission.—
To Dr. Benjamin Rush. Washington ed. iv, 426.
Ford ed., viii, 128.
(W.
1801)
