1383. COMMERCE, Cherish.—[continued].
Unconscious of partiality
between the different callings of my fellow
citizens, I trust that a fair review of my attention
to the interests of commerce in particular,
in every station of my political life, will
afford sufficient proofs of my just estimation
of its importance in the social system. What
has produced our present difficulties, and what
will have produced the impending war, if that
is to be our lot? Our efforts to save the
rights of commerce and navigation. From
these, solely and exclusively, the whole of our
present dangers flow.—
R. to A. Leesburg Citizens. Washington ed. viii, 161.
(1809)
