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2229. DIPLOMATIC ESTABLISHMENT, Reduction of.—[continued].

We call in our diplomatic
missions, barely keeping up those to the most
important nations. There is a strong disposition
in our countrymen to discontinue even
these; and very possibly it may be done.—
To William Short. Washington ed. iv, 415. Ford ed., viii, 98.
(W. 1801)

See Ministers.