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530. ARMY, Seniority in.—[further continued] .
We are doomed. * * * to
sacrifice the lives of our citizens by thousands
to this blind principle, for fear the peculiar interest
and responsibility of our Executive
should not be sufficient to guard his selection
of officers against favoritism.—
To General Armstrong.
Ford ed., ix, 380.
(M.
1813)
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