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9090. WEST INDIES, San Domingo.—

I
expressed to [the San Domingo deputies] freely
my opinion * * * that as to ourselves


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there was one case which would be peculiarly
alarming to us, to wit, were there a danger of
their falling under any other power [than
France].—
To William Short. Washington ed. iii, 304. Ford ed., v, 395.
(Pa., Nov. 1791)