3310. FRIENDSHIP WITH ENGLAND, Price of.—
What is the price we ask
for our friendship? Justice, and the comity
usually observed between nation and nation.
Would there not be more of dignity in this,
more character and satisfaction, than in her
teasings and harrassings, her briberies and intrigues,
to sow party discord among us, which
can never have more effect here than the
opposition within herself has there; which
can never obstruct the begetting children, the
efficient source of growth; and by nourishing
a deadly hatred, will only produce and hasten
events which both of us, in moments of sober
reflection, should deplore and deprecate? One
half of the attention employed in decent observances
towards our Government, would be
worth more to her than all the Yankee duperies
played off upon her, at a great expense
on her part of money and meanness, and of
nourishment to the vices and treacheries of
the Henrys and Hulls of both nations.—
To James Maury. Washington ed. vi, 468.
(M.
1815)
