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1415. COMMERCE, Neutrality and.—

If the new government wears the front which
I hope it will, I see no impossibility in availing
ourselves of the wars of others to open
the other parts [88] of America to our commerce,
as the price of our neutrality.—
To General Washington. Washington ed. ii, 533. Ford ed., v, 57.
(P. 1788)

 
[88]

The Colonies of the European powers.—Editor.