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2649. ENGLAND, Hostility of.—[further continued].

The English are still our
enemies. The spirit existing there, and rising
in America, has a very lowering aspect. To
what events it may give birth, I cannot foresee.
We are young and can survive them;
but their rotten machine must crush under
the trial.—
To C. W. F. Dumas. Washington ed. i, 553.
(P. 1786)


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