5845. NEUTRALITY, Impartial.—[further continued] .
I trust that in the readiness
with which the United States have attended
to the redress of such wrongs as are committed by their citizens, or within their
jurisdiction, you will see proofs of their justice
and impartiality to all parties, and that it
will ensure to their citizens pursuing their lawful
business by sea or by land, in all parts of
the world, a like efficacious interposition of
the governing powers to protect them from injury,
and redress it, where it has taken place.
With such dispositions on both sides, vigilantly
and faithfully carried into effect, we May
hope that the blessings of peace, on the one
part, will be as little impaired, and the evils
of war on the other, as little aggravated, as the
nature of things will permit; and that this
should be so, is, we trust, the prayer of all.—
To George Hammond. Washington ed. iii, 559.
Ford ed., vi, 254.
(Pa.,
1793)
