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9199. X. Y. Z. PLOT, Delusion through. [further continued].

The violations of the
Constitution, propensities to war, to expense,
and to a particular foreign connection [Great
Britain], which we have lately seen, are becoming
evident to the people, and are dispelling
that mist which X. Y. Z. had spread before their
eyes.—
To Edmund Pendleton. Washington ed. iv, 287. Ford ed., vii, 356.
(Pa., Feb. 1799)