3304. FRIENDSHIP WITH ENGLAND, How obtained.—
But is their friendship
to be obtained by the irritating policy of
fomenting among us party discord, and a teasing
opposition; by bribing traitors, whose sale
of themselves proves they would sell their
purchasers also, if their treacheries were
worth a price? How much cheaper would it
be, how much easier, more honorable more
magnanimous and secure, to gain the government
itself by a moral, a friendly and respectful
course of conduct, which is all they
would ask for a cordial and faithful return.—
To Sir John Sinclair. Washington ed. vii, 22.
(M.
1816)
