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by increased knowledge with regard to the ocean, "America will seem
every day to approach nearer and nearer to Europe"; that the old alarm
at the sea will subside, and "a thousand attractive motives will become
the irresistible cause of _an almost general emigration to the New
World_"; and that "many of the most useful, enterprising spirits, and
much of the active property, will go there also."[56]

6. That "North America will become a _free port_ to all the nations of
the world indiscriminately, and will expect, insist on, and demand, in
fair reciprocity, a _free market_ in all those nations with whom she
trades"; and that, adhering to this principle, "she must be, in the
course of time, the chief carrier of the commerce of the whole
world."[57]

7. That America must avoid complication with European politics, or "the
entanglement of alliances," having no connections with Europe other than
commercial;[58]--all of which at a later day was put forth by Washington
in his Farewell Address, when he said, "The great rule of conduct for
us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial
relations, to have with them as little political concern as possible."

8. That similar modes of living and thinking, the same manners and same
fashions, the same language and old habits of national love, impressed
on the heart and not yet effaced, _the very indentings of the fracture
where North America is broken off from England, all conspire naturally
to a rejuncture by alliance_.[59]

9. That the sovereigns of Europe, "who have despised the unfashioned,
awkward youth of America," and have neglected to interweave their
interests with the rising States, when they find the system of the new
empire not only obstructing, but superseding, the old system of Europe,
and crossing all their settled maxims, will call upon their ministers
and wise men, "Come, curse me this people, for they are too mighty for
me."[60]

This appeal was followed by two other memorials, "drawn up solely for
the king's use, and designed solely for his eye," _dated at Richmond,
January, 1782_, in which the author most persuasively pleads with the
king to treat with the Colonies on the footing of independence, and
with this view to institute a preliminary negotiation "as with free
states _de facto_ under a truce." On the signature of the treaty of
peace, he wrote a private letter to Franklin, dated at _Richmond, 28th
February, 1783_, in which be testif