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3840. IMMIGRATION, Negro.—

The papers
from the free people of color in Grenada * * * I apprehend it will be best to take
no notice of. They are parties in a domestic
quarrel, which, I think, we should leave to
be settled among themselves. Nor should I
think it desirable, were it justifiable, to draw
a body of sixty thousand free blacks and
mulattoes into our country.—
To President Washington. Ford ed., v, 342.
(Pa., 1791)