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9081. WEST INDIES, Liberty in French.—

The emancipation of their islands
is an idea prevailing in the minds of several
members of the National Assembly, particularly
those most enlightened and most liberal in their
views. Such a step by this country would lead
to other emancipations or revolutions in the
same quarter.—
To John Jay. Washington ed. iii, 96.
(P. 1789)