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6022. OCEAN, American supremacy.—[continued].

The possession of Louisiana
will cost France * * * a war which
will annihilate her on the ocean, and place
that element under the despotism of two
nations, which I am not reconciled to the
more because my own would be one of them.—
To M. Dupont de Nemours, Washington ed. iv, 435.
(W. April. 1802)