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hamilton to jefferson
(Cabinet Paper.)

• Treasury Department,

June 3, 1793.

Sir:—It was not till within an hour that I received your letter of the 1st, with the papers accompanying it. I approve all the drafts of letters as they stand, except that I have some doubts about the concluding sentence of that on the subject of Henfield.1 If the facts are (as I presume they are) established, may it not be construed into a wish that there may be found no law to punish a conduct in our citizens which is of a tendency dangerous to the peace of the nation, and injurious to Powers with whom we are on terms of peace and neutrality?

I should also like to substitute, for the words, “have the favorable issue you desire,” these words, “issue accordingly.”

I retain till to-morrow the paper relating to an agent to the Choctaws. My judgment is not entirely made up on the point—the state of my family and my own health having prevented due reflection upon it.

With great respect, I have the honor to be, etc.

[1]Henfield had been arrested for enlisting at Charleston on French privateer, The Citoyen Genet, in order to serve (to quote the language of the Attorney-General) “against a nation at peace with the United States, in violation of treaties and the supreme law of the land.”