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3180. FRANCE, Sufferings of.—

I grieve
for France; although it cannot be denied that
by the afflictions with which she wantonly
and wickedly overwhelmed other nations, she
has merited severe reprisals. For it is no excuse
to lay the enormities to the wretch who
led to them.—
To Albert Gallatin. Washington ed. vi, 499.
(M. Oct. 1815)