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5618. NATION (United States), Supremacy.—[continued].

The day is not distant,
when we may formally require a meridian of
partition through the ocean which separates
the two hemispheres, on the hither side of
which no European gun shall ever be heard,
nor an American on the other; and when,
during the rage of the eternal wars of Europe,
the lion and the lamb, within our regions,
shall lie down together in peace.—
To William Short. Washington ed. vii, 168.
(M. 1820)