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3249. FREE TRADE, Appeal for.—

Our
interest will be to throw open the doors of
commerce, and to knock off all its shackles,
giving perfect freedom to all persons for the
vent of whatever they may choose to bring
into our ports, and asking the same in theirs.—
Notes on Virginia. Washington ed. viii, 412. Ford ed., iii, 279.
(1782)