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6706. POLICY (American), Mid-Atlantic meridian.—

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permit us to give the law of our hemisphere,
it should be that the meridian of the mid-Atlantic
should be the line of demarcation
between war and peace, on this side of
which no act of hostility should be committed,
and the lion and the lamb lie down
in peace together.—
To Dr. Crawford. Washington ed. vi, 33.
(M. Jan. 1812)