Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States
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It was with him, his heirs and successors, that they contracted their engagements, by which they obtained those precious succors." Amplify these two statements to a vast extent ; support them by a. prodigious number of curiously subtle and remote rea- GENET COMING. 467 sons ; throw in the usual citations from Vattel, Grotius, Wolf, and Puifendorf; add some remarks upon the danger of guaranteeing to France islands that might be taken by the English,^ — and you have the substance of Hamilton's pa...per upon the reception of Genet. Jefferson replied to it at much length. Besides giving his col- league an ample supply of Vattel, Puffendorf, Grotius, and Wolf, arranged in parallel columns, executed with singular neatness, he favored him with some passages of pure Jefferson, which have become part and parcel of the diplomatic system of the United States. " If," said Mr. Jefferson, " I do not subscribe to the soundness of the secretary of the treasury's reasoning, I do most fully to its inge- nuity.
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