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I am in the midst of that fiery ordeal, and day and night absorbed in the struggle against this attempt at my ruin.
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Josiah Quincy expresses his intense struggle against political attacks aimed at him.
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The terms, indeed, in which such a character as Washington has repeatedly expressed himself concerning me, have left me nothing to wish, if they did not alarm me by their very strength.
The power of the present Congress to enact laws essential to the welfare of the people has been struck with apoplexy by the executive hand.
But the first principles of morals and politics, which have long been settled, acquire the authority of self-evident truths, which, when first discussed, may have been vehemently and portentously contested.
I am determined to get my own living, and to be dependent upon no one.
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