Dividé Et Emperre, and Footnote

We are not authorized to expect that a more liberal or more equitable spirit would preside over the legislations of the individual states hereafter. Laws in violation of private contracts, as they amount to aggressions on the rights of those states whose citizens are injured by them, may be considered as another probable source of hostility. The probability of incompatible alliances between the different states or confederacies and different foreign nations have been sufficiently unfolded in some preceding papers. Dividé et emperre must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.