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7842. SHAYS'S REBELLION, European opinion of.—

The tumults in America, I expected,
would have produced in Europe an unfavorable
opinion of our political state. But it
has not. On the contrary, the small effect of
these tumults seems to have given more confidence
in the firmness of our governments. The
interposition of the people themselves on the


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side of government has had a great effect on
the opinion here.—
To Edward Carrington. Washington ed. ii, 99. Ford ed., iv, 359.
(1787)