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Excerpt from At a Meeting of the Democratic Republicans of the County of Gloucester It is with great diffidence, I rise to attempt the performance of the task assigned me this day - this diffidence arises partly from a consciousness of my inability, and partly from being again called into action, contrary to my own desire, which was to have retired from the various troubled scenes of life; and the few remaining days that may be allotted me, to have walked softly on my solemn western shore, from which I must soon embark to a world as yet unknown; but the only sovereign under God, which I acknowlege the people, having forbid my proposed quiet and silent retreat, by placing me again, as one of the guardians of their rights and liberties, and commanded me again to stand on my watch tower, their command I obey, and as formerly consider it my duty, to expose to public view the conduct of public servants, and warn my fellow citizens of impending danger arising from foreign or domestic enemies; or the more dangerous intrigues of internal pretended friends - in attempting to perform the duty you have assigned me, I ask the aid of your spirits, and serious attention, assuring you, that nothing short of a sense of duty, arising from my earnest desire, that the present inestimable blessings that the people of the United States enjoy, may be continued through all succeeding generations, could have induced me to have undertaken the arduous task. Agreeable to the expectation given in the advertisements by which this meeting has been convened, I shall now proceed to state some facts, exposing to public view, the conduct of the former federal administration; (so called) contrasted with the present democratic administration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.