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6688. POLAND, Partition of.—[continued].

The partition of Poland
* * * was the atrocity of a barbarous government
chiefly, in conjunction with a smaller one
still scrambling to become great, while one only
of those already great, and having character to
lose, descended to the baseness of an accomplice
in the crime.—
To John Adams. Washington ed. vi, 524.
(M. 1816)