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The Judges themselves united in writing to the President an urgent letter, August 19, 1792, which he transmitted to Congress, in which they said:

We really, sir, find the burdens laid upon us so excessive that we cannot forbear representing them in strong and explicit terms. On extraordinary occasions, we shall always be ready, as good citizens, to make extraordinary exertions; but while our country enjoys prosperity, and nothing occurs to require or justify such severities, we cannot reconcile ourselves to the idea of existing in exile from our families, and of being subjected to a kind of life on which we cannot reflect without experiencing sensations and emotions more easy to conceive than proper for us to express. … That the task of holding twenty-seven Circuit Courts a year, in the different States, from New Hampshire to Georgia, besides