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1367. COLONIES, European nations and their.—

The habitual violation of the
equal rights of the colonist by the dominant
(for I will not call them the mother)
countries of Europe, the invariable sacrifice
of their highest interests to the minor advantages
of any individual trade or calling at
home, are as immoral in principle as the continuance
of them is unwise in practice, after
the lessons they have received.—
To Clement Caine. Washington ed. vi, 13. Ford ed., ix. 329.
(M. 1811)