9088. WEST INDIES, Prosperity of.—
Our wishes are cordial for the reestablishment
of peace and commerce in those colonies, and
to give such proofs of our good faith both to
them and the mother country [France] as to
suppress all that jealousy which might oppose
itself to the free exchange of our mutual productions,
so essential to the prosperity of those
colonies, and to the preservation of our agricultural
interest. This is our true interest and
our true object, and we have no reason to conceal
views so justifiable, though the expression
of them may require that the occasions be
proper, and the terms chosen with delicacy.—
To Gouverneur Morris. Washington ed. iii, 339.
Ford ed., v, 450.
(Pa.,
1792)
