5075. MARKETS, Foreign.—[continued].
Our commerce is certainly
of a character to entitle it to favor in most countries. The commodities we offer
are either necessaries of life, or materials for
manufacture, or convenient subjects of revenue;
and we take in exchange, either manufactures,
when they have received the last
finish of art and industry, or mere luxuries.
Such customers may reasonably expect welcome
and friendly treatment at every market.
Customers, too, whose demands, increasing
with their wealth and population, must very
shortly give full employment to the whole
industry of any nation whatever, in any line
of supply they may get into the habit of calling
for from it.—
Foreign Commerce Report. Washington ed. vii, 646.
Ford ed., vi, 479.
(Dec. 1793)
