8454. TOBACCO, Differential duties.—[continued].
I take for granted the
National Assembly were surprised into the mea
sure by persons whose avarice blinded them to
the consequences, and hope it will be repealed
before our legislature shall be obliged to act on
it. Such an attack on our carriage of our own
productions, and such a retaliation would illy
prepare the minds of the two nations for a liberal
treaty as wished for by the real friends of
both.—
To Joseph Fenwick.
Ford ed., v, 380.
(Pa.,
1791)
