Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Edward Rutledge

Paris July 14. 1787.

I congratulate you, my dear friend, on the law of your state for suspending the importation of slaves, and for the glory you have justly acquired by endeavoring to prevent it for ever. this abomination must have an end, and there is a superior bench reserved in heaven for those who hasten it.

RC (PHi). PrC (DLC). Published in PTJ, 11:587–9.
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