Political Sketches of Eight Years in Washington in Four Parts With Annotation
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] JACKSONIAN DIPLOMACY. 83 therefore continue to furnish a subject of unpleasant discussion, AND POSSIBLE COLLISION hetwBcn the two govcrmnents. I che- rish, however, a hvely hope, founded as well on the validity of those claims, and the established policy of all enlightened govern- ments, as on the known integrity of the French monarch, that the injurious delays of the past will find redress in the equity of the future. Our minister has been instructed to press these demands on the French gove...rnment with all the earnestness which is called for by their importance and irrefutable justice; and in a spirit that loill evince the respect which is due to the FEELINGS OP THOSE FROM WHOM THE SATISFACTION IS REQUI- RED!' It is but too plain that this is the style of an old duellist and bully. Or, if it were not so obvious to all, at first, it became as glaring as the beams of an ardent furnace, in his subsequent threatening deportment towards that same ancient ally, after he had successfully '■circuinvcnted her' in these negociations — for such was the boastful slang of the 'dirty official sheet' here, and the rest of the party newspapers of the day, in glorifying the success of Mr.
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