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6699. POLICY (American), France and England.—[continued].

It is our unquestionable
interest and duty to conduct ourselves with
such sincere friendship and impartiality towards
both France and England, as that each
may see unequivocally, what is unquestionably
true, that we may be very possibly
driven into her scale by unjust conduct in
the other.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. iv, 557. Ford ed., viii, 315.
(M. Aug. 1804)