7702. SAN DOMINGO, Commerce with.—[further continued].
Toussaint's clause was
retained. [443]
Even South Carolinians in the House
of Representatives voted for it. We may expect,
therefore, black crews, and supercargoes,
and missionaries thence into the Southern
States; and when that leaven begins to work,
I would gladly compound with a great part of
our northern country, if they would honestly
stand neuter. If this combustion can be introduced
among us under any veil whatever,
we have to fear it.—
To James Madison.
Ford ed., vii, 349.
(Pa.,
Feb. 1799)
