4349. LAFAYETTE (Marquis de), France and America.—[continued].
The Marquis de Lafayette
stands in such a relation between America
and France, that I should think him perfectly
capable of seizing what is just[commercially]
as to both. Perhaps on some occasion of free
conversation, you might find an opportunity of
impressing these truths[respecting commerce
with the West Indies] on his mind, and that
from him, they might be let out at a proper moment,
as matters meriting consideration and
weight, when[the National Assembly] shall be
engaged in the work of forming a constitution
for our neighbors.—
To William Short. Washington ed. iii, 276.
Ford ed., v, 364.
(Pa.,
1791)
