6102. OFFICES, Labor and.—
Considering
the general tendency to multiply offices
and dependencies, and to increase expense
to the ultimate term of burden which the
citizen can bear, it behooves us to avail ourselves
of every occasion which presents itself
for taking off the surcharge; that it May
never be seen here that, after leaving to labor
the smallest portion of its earnings on which
it can subsist, government shall itself consume
the residue of what it was instituted
to guard.—
First Annual Message. Washington ed. viii, 10.
Ford ed., viii, 120.
(Dec. 1801)
