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Excerpt from A Letter to George Washington, President of the United States: Containing Strictures on His Address of the Seventeenth of September, 1796, Notifying His Relinquishment of the Presidential Office
Had the French revolution commenced ten years later, or you retired to the llfades of Mount Vernon four years ago, the friends of public virtue would llill proudly Mall of one great man free from the breath of public difpraife, and your fondly partial country, forbearing to enquire whether or not you were chargable with private aberrations, would vaunt in you the poffefiion of the phenix.
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