[The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 (of 5) by John Marshall]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 (of 5) CHAPTER IV 75/84
If it should miscarry, (as men commonly decide from success or the want of it) the blame will in all probability be laid on the system itself.
And the framers of it will have to encounter the disrepute of having brought about a revolution in government, without substituting any thing that was worthy of the effort; they pulled down one Utopia, it will be said, to build up another.
This view of the subject, if I mistake not, my dear sir, will suggest to your mind greater hazard to that fame, which must be, and ought to be dear to you, in refusing your future aid to the system, than in affording it.
I will only add, that in my estimate of the matter, that aid is indispensable. "I have taken the liberty to express these sentiments, and to lay before you my view of the subject.
I doubt not the considerations mentioned have fully occurred to you, and I trust, they will finally produce in your mind the same result which exists in mine.
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