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4 Van te ge This ie auch s baie orinctple thet it cas reecgnized a¢ errly as the as adsinigtration of our first President. On February cx last, the very day on snich the Senate egresd to the hes lution under which this Gone aittee te proceeting, the Furevell address of Presient Pecrington was a read in the Senete cheaber. < onl your at lac thon to. one peragraph of that Adiress, whieh apperre on “pege 2152 of the Congressional Reoord: of Februery 22, and which to ee aptly states the prinot, les i wih ve moat be governed, President Washington atateds . it is iasortent lixexiee, thet the bebite of tuink- ing in a free scuntry should inspire geution in thous intrusted with ite adainistration, tc oonfine thea. selves vithin tieir rez;eotive oc: etit: tions] spheres, svoiding in the ezercize of the powers of ons depart - wext, tc enereeach uzcn another. ‘The apirlt of anarotoh- rent tenda to eonsolicate the porera of a1) the depart cente in ont, enc thue to orerte, whatever the form of © - gcvernuent, © reel Sercotian, # * 6 & if, ir. the cpin- jon cf tre ,e7 ries the dieiributlon or mocdificetion of the conetitutions] yowers be in any particcler trong, Let it be corrected by an azentsent in the wey phigh the ccnetituticn designetes.—But let tuere be a obenge by ueurpetion; for thovgn this, in cne instscee, aay de tre insirusent of good, At is tus euatucary weepon by which free governsets are destroyed. The preoeient must elways grectly overbslance in persanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can et any tine yield, . President Nagshington wis 8,eaking from ;<raonal ex erience with the | very probhee ce now have befcre us--nanely, & request by a eoagresstonsl Corsittee for the _protuetion of dogumenta whieh in the opinion of tae Executive brench must be held sonfidential in the publ ie. interest. ‘ue won tel oe probles, you see, is as ol¢ ee the Gveruzent itself. In Zeren of 1792, the House of Re, resentatives adonted « resolution estab! ening @ Cousittee to inguire inte the savees of the failure of the excedition under ¢sjor Generel St. Clair, ent ec;owering trat Coauittee to cull fs eueh pepera and records cs aight Le neeersery to ascist the Cox- bn tee