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365. ANIMOSITIES, National.—

The
animosities of sovereigns are temporary, and
may be allayed; but those which seize the
whole body of a people, and of a people, too,
who dictate their own measures, produce calamities
of long duration. [24]
To C. W. F. Dumas. Washington ed. i, 553.
(P. 1786)

 
[24]

Jefferson was describing the “hatred” of America
by the English people.—Editor.