Special Opinion to the Cape Charles Mirror by Paul Plante.
In FEDERALIST No. 62 for the Independent Journal to the People of the State of New York circa 1788, although it sounds as if it could have been written today, either James Madison or Alexander Hamilton, writing as Publius, stated as follows:
Every nation, consequently, whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability, may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of their wiser neighbors.
But the best instruction on this subject is unhappily conveyed to America by the example of her own situation.
She finds that she is held in no respect by her friends; that she is the derision of her enemies; and that she is a prey to every nation which has an interest in speculating on her fluctuating councils and embarrassed affairs.
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