[969] Minton Collins to Stephen Collins, Aug. 9, 1788; ib.
[970] "Vergennes complained, and with a good deal of stress, that they did not find a sufficient dependence on arrangements taken with us. This was the third time, too, he had done it.... He observed too, that the administration of justice with us was tardy, insomuch that their merchants, when they had money due to them within our States, considered it as desperate; and that our commercial regulations, in general, were disgusting to them." (Jefferson's Report; Works: Ford, iv, 487.)
[971] Jefferson to Stuart, Jan. 25, 1786; ib., v, 74.
[972] Jefferson to Madison, Dec. 16, 1786; ib., v, 230.
[973] Jefferson to Carrington, Paris, Aug. 4, 1787; ib., 318; also 332; and Jefferson to Wythe, Sept. 16, 1787; ib., 340.
[974] Jefferson to Carrington, Paris, Aug. 4, 1787; ib., 318.
[975] Jefferson to Meusnier, Jan. 24, 1786; ib., 8.
[976] Jefferson to Meusnier, Jan. 24, 1786; Works: Ford, v, 8.
[977] Jefferson to Madison, Dec. 20, 1787; ib., 373-74. Jefferson concluded, prophetically, that when the people "get piled upon one another, in large cities, as in Europe, they will become as corrupt as Europe." (Ib.)
[978] Jefferson to Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785; ib., iv, 469.