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2641. ENGLAND, Hatred of United States.—[continued].

That nation [England],
hates us, their ministers hate us, and their
King, more than all other men, hates us.
They have the impudence to avow this;
though they acknowledge our trade important
to them * * * I think their hostility
towards us is much more deeply rooted at
present, than during the war.—
To John Page. Washington ed. i, 550. Ford ed., iv, 214.
(P. 1786)