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5998. NON-IMPORTATION, Popular.—[continued].

I love Mr. Clarke's
proposition of cutting off all communication
with the nation [Great Britain] which has conducted


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itself so atrociously. This may bring on war. If it does we will meet it like men;
but it may not bring on war, and then the experiment
will have been a happy one.—
To Tench Coxe. Washington ed. iv, 105. Ford ed., vi, 508.
(M. May. 1794)