The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson
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BRITAIN / IMPRESSMENT OF U.S. SEAMEN
I am in hopes you will have been able to enter into proper
arrangements with the British minister for the protection of our
seamen from impressments, before the preparations for war shall have
produced inconvenience to them. While he regards so minutely the
inconveniences to themselves which may result from a due regulation of
this practice, it is just he should regard our inconveniences also,
from the want of it. His observations in your letter imply merely,
that if they should abstain from injuring us, it might be attended
with inconvenience to themselves.
to Thomas Pinckney, 16 March 1793
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