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5905. NEW ORLEANS, Right of deposit.—[continued].

Observe always, that to
accept the navigation of the river without an
entrepôt would be perfectly useless, and that an
entrepôt, if trammelled, would be a certain instrument
for bringing on war instead of preventing
it.—
To William Short. Washington ed. iii, 228. Ford ed., v, 305.
(Pa., 1791)