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5896. NEUTRALITY PROCLAMATION, History of.—[further continued] .

The real milk and water
views of the proclamation appeared to me
to have been truly given in a piece published
in the papers soon after [it was issued],
and which I knew to be E. R.'s [Edmund Randolph's] from its exact coincidence with what
he has expressed.—
To James Madison. Ford ed., vi, 328.
(1793)