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The Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
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Boston's Centinel reports that the U.S. President will decline candidacy for the upcoming election, recommending Thomas Jefferson as a highly esteemed republican statesman, second only to George Washington in public regard.
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The Centinel says the president of the United States will decline being considered a candidate for that important office, at the ensuing election, the electors therefore who may be chosen by the several states, will doubtless turn their attention to that firm republican statesman Thomas Jefferson; whose integrity, abilities and usefulness are well known throughout America. No man stands higher in the esteem of his fellow-citizens (G. WASHINGTON excepted) than this bright constellation in the Columbian hemisphere.
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Boston
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June 13.
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The Centinel says the president of the United States will decline being considered a candidate for that important office, at the ensuing election, the electors therefore who may be chosen by the several states, will doubtless turn their attention to that firm republican statesman Thomas Jefferson; whose integrity, abilities and usefulness are well known throughout America. No man stands higher in the esteem of his fellow-citizens (G. WASHINGTON excepted) than this bright constellation in the Columbian hemisphere.