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The private interests and sordid passions into which that fund has already fallen fill me with anxiety and apprehensions that it will be squandered upon cormorants, or wasted in electioneering bribery.
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Quincy expresses his concerns about the potential misuse of the Smithsonian fund due to private interests.
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