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SCI LIBRARY

The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson

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FRANCE / FOREIGN RELATIONS



The French revolution still goes on well, though the danger of a suspension of payments is very imminent. Their appeal to the inhabitants of their colonies to say on what footing they wish to be placed, will end, I hope, in our free admissions into their islands with our produce. This -precedent must have consequences. It is impossible the world should continue long insensible to so evident a truth as that the right to have commerce and intercourse with our neighbors, is a natural right. To suppress this neighborly intercourse is an exercise of force, which we shall have a just tight to remove when the superior force.

to Thomas Mann Randolph, 30 May 1790