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SCI LIBRARY

The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson

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CONGRESS / SPEECHES



I observe that the H. of R. are sensible of the ill effects of the long speeches in their house on their proceedings. But they have a worse effect in the disgust they excite among the.. people, and the disposition they are producing to transfer their confidence from the legislature to the executive branch, which would soon sap our Constitution. These speeches, therefore, are less and less read, and if continued will cease to be read at all.

John Wayles Eppes, 17 January 1810