They, therefore, wished this series of victories to be interrupted; and that the balance of Europe should not be absolutely overturned.

Additional strength was undoubtedly given to this course of reasoning by the aggressions of France on the United States.
In the opinion of the opposite party, the triumphs of France were the triumphs of liberty.

In their view every nation which was subdued, was a nation liberated from oppression.

The fears of danger to the United States from the further aggrandizement of a single power were treated as chimerical, because that power being a republic must, consequently, be the friend of republics in every part of the globe, and a stranger to that lust of domination which was the characteristic passion of monarchies.

Shifting with address the sentiment really avowed by their opponents, they ridiculed a solicitude for the existence of a balance of power in Europe, as an opinion that America ought to embark herself in the crusade of kings against France in order to preserve that balance.
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