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6692. POLICY (American), Coercion of Europe.—

We think that peaceable means
may be devised of keeping nations in the
path of justice towards us, by making justice
their interest and injuries to react on
themselves. Our distance enables us to pursue
a course which the crowded situation of
Europe renders, perhaps, impracticable there.—
To M. Cabanis. Washington ed. iv, 497.
(W. 1803)