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The writings of James Madison,

comprising his public papers and his private correspondence, including numerous letters and documents now for the first time printed.
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
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Page 432

ART. 6.

This article as taking the case of the West India trade
out of any general stipulation of privileges granted to other
nations, may prove convenient, by disincumbering measures
which may be taken against the British monopoly, from, questions
of which that stipulation might otherwise be susceptible.

Art. 7, tho' to remain if desired, would be more reasonable
without the last paragraph, or with a right only to except
places and periods, at which the trade of the other party may
not be permitted.