5454. MONOPOLY, Tobacco.—[further continued] .
I consider [the suppression
of the tobacco monopoly in France] as
the most effectual means of procuring the full
value of our produce, of diverting our demands
for manufactures from Great Britain to this
country to a certain amount, and of thus producing
some equilibrium in our commerce
which, at present, lies all in the British scale.
It would cement an union with our friends,
and lessen the torrent of wealth we are pouring
into the laps of our enemies.—
To T. Pleasants. Washington ed. i, 563.
(P.
1786)
