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Lf#From the Nations! Intelligencer,THOMAS PAIN,TO THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES.LETTER the FIFTH.11 is always rhc interi ft of a far grater part of the nation to have a thing r ghr, than to haveit wrong;, anti, therefore, in a country whole government isfounded on the fvftem of election and reprelentation, the fate of every party is decided by its principles.As this fyftem is the only foim and principle of govern-ment by which liberty can be prtfcrved, and the only one that can embrafc til the varieties of a g eat extenr of coun-» try, it neiellarily fdlows, that tlt; have the reprefenutior real,I the eledlion mull be real: antithat whete the clcion is a fiction, the reprefentation is a fidion aifo. Like will always produce iti like.A great deal has been faid and written concerning the conduct of Mr. Burr during the late conteft in the federal legiflature, whether Mr. Jefferfon or Mr. Burr fhould be declared prtfi-dentof the United Stares. Mr. Burr has been accufed of intriguing to obtain the preftdcn-cy. Whether this charge befubftantiated or not makes htrlc or no part of the purport of this letter, l'here is a point of much higher importance to attend to than any thing that relates to the individual Mr. Burr; for the great point is not whether Mr. Burr has intrigued, but whether the legif) iture has intrigued with him ?Mr. Ogdcr, a relation of oneof the fenators of New-ferfey of the fame name, and of the parcv alfuming the flrle of fe-deralifts, has written a letterpublilhed in the New-York
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Louisville Gazette and Republican Trumpet
Louisville, Georgia, US
Wed, Feb 23, 1803
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