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3074. FOREIGN INFLUENCE, French.—

Foreign influence is the present and just
object of public hue and cry, and, as often
happens, the most guilty are foremost and
loudest in the cry. If those who are truly
independent, can so trim our vessel as to
beat through the waves now agitating us, they
will merit a glory the greater as it seems less
possible.—
To Thomas Pinckney. Washington ed. iv, 176. Ford ed., vii, 128.
(Pa., May. 1797)