University of Virginia Library

TO JAMES MONROE.

Dear Sir,—Altho' the inclosed letter is anonymous,
the idea it suggests, of requiring an admission
of our Cotton in a half manufactured state at least
by nations whose luxuries fully manufactured, are
admitted in the U. S. is not unworthy of attention.
The general idea I believe has not escaped in the
instructions to Mr. Gallatin and Mr. Pinkney. But
it may be well to enforce it and particularly in relation
to Cotton Twist, which Russia receives from
G. B. whilst her manufactures are excluded by the
latter, and which France has lately prohibited even
from the U. S. on the principle of reciprocity. The
U. S. may reasonably demand such a regulation
in their favor; and the nations granting it may with
equal reason refuse it to G. B without a charge of
partiality. As the Netherlands have adopted a
like policy agst. the U. S. a change may very properly
be urged, on the same grounds, by Mr. Eustis,
whether a treaty be or be not contemplated. An

admission of cotton twist from this country into
Europe, is of vast importance to manufacturing
estabts. & indeed to its general interests.