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Comment on the growth of liberty.

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Jul 12, 1798

I can not express how greatly affected I am at this new proof of public confidence.

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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

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I must not conceal from you my earnest wish that the choice had fallen upon a man less declined in years and better qualified to encounter the usual vicissitudes of war.

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Mar 1, 1797

It is with peculiar satisfaction I can say, that prompted by a high sense of duty in my attendance on public worship, I have been gratified by the liberal and interesting discourses delivered in your Churches.

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