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296. ALLIANCE, Abjure.—

I sincerely
join you in abjuring all political connection
with every foreign power; and though I cordially
wish well to the progress of liberty in
all nations, and would forever give it the
weight of our countenance, yet they are not


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to be touched without contamination from
their other bad principles.—
To T. Lomax. Washington ed. iv, 301. Ford ed., vii, 374.
(M. March. 1799)