Note 37 — Chapter I
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Jefferson to Leiper, Aug. 21, 1807, Works: Ford, x, 483-84.
Jefferson tenaciously clung to his prejudice against Great Britain: "The object of England, long obvious, is to claim the ocean as her domain.... We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberty of the seas, than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind." (Jefferson to Maury, April 25, 1812, ib. xi, 240-41.) He never failed to accentuate his love for France and his hatred for Napoleon.