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8541. TREATIES, Opposition to European.—[continued].

We wish to let every
treaty we have drop off without renewal.
* * * The interest which European nations
feel, as well as ourselves, in the mutual patronage
of commercial intercourse, is a sufficient
stimulus on both sides to ensure that
patronage. A treaty, contrary to that interest,
renders war necessary to get rid of it.—
To William Short. Washington ed. iv, 415. Ford ed., viii, 98.
(W. 1801)