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5848. NEUTRALITY, Impartial.—[further continued].

It is to be deplored that
distant as we are from the storms and convulsions
which agitate the European world, the
pursuit of an honest neutrality, beyond the
reach of reproach, has been insufficient to


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secure to us the certain enjoyments of peace
with those whose interests as well as ours
would be promoted by it.—
R. to A. New Jersey Legislature. Washington ed. viii, 122.
(1807)