"[H]istory and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes ofrepublican government. . . . Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislikeof another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side and serve to veiland even second the arts of influence on the other. . . . The great rule of conduct for us,in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have with themas little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements,let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primaryinterests which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged infrequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns."George Washington, Farewell Address, 179624. The concerns expressed by Washington were a response to the(A) debate over the proper treatment of American Indian tribes in the trans-Appalachian West(B) dispute over the possibility of annexing Canada from Great Britain(C) controversy regarding support for the revolutionary government of France(D) conflict with Great Britain over the treatment of American Loyalists

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