Note 1206 — Chapter X
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Bushrod Washington to Washington, June 6, 1788; Writings: Sparks, ix, 378. But Madison gave Henry an opening through which that veteran orator drove like a troop of horse, as far as practical and momentary effect was concerned. Madison described the new government as partly National and partly Federal. (Elliott, iii, 94; and see Henry's use of this, ib., 171; also infra.)