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3144. FRANCE, Friendship.—[further continued] .

There is a fund of friendship
and attachment between the mass of the
two nations * * *. The present administration
of this country have these feelings
of their constituents, and will be true
to them. We shall act steadily on the desire
of cementing our interests and affections;
and of this you cannot go too far in assuring
them.—
To Robert R. Livingston. Ford ed., viii, 138.
(W. March. 1802)