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324. ALLIANCE, Unwise.—

I join you
* * * in a sense of the necessity of restoring
freedom to the ocean. But I doubt, with you,
whether the United States ought to join in
an armed confederacy for that purpose; or
rather I am satisfied they ought not.—
To George Logan. Ford ed., viii, 23.
(W. March. 1801)