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5089. MARKETS, Neutrality and.—

If
the new government wears the front which
I hope it will, I see no impossibility in the
availing ourselves of the wars of others to
open up the other parts [West India Islands] of America to our commerce as the
price of our neutrality.—
To General Washington. Washington ed. ii, 533. Ford ed., v, 57.
(P. 1788)