The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CXXXII
ⅭⅩⅩⅩⅡ. George Washington to Doctor Stuart.[1]
Mount Vernon October 17th. 1787
As the enclosed advertiser contains a speech of Mr. Wilson’s[2] (as able, candid and honest a member as in Convention) which will place the most of—M.—objections in their true point of light, I send it to you—the republication will (if you can get it done) be Serviceable at this Juncture. His ipso facto objection does not, I believe require any answer, every mind must recoil at the idea—and with respect to the navigation act. I am mistaken if any men, bodies of men or Countries, will enter into any compact or treaty, if one of the three is to have a negative controul over the other two, but granting that it is an evil it will infallibly work its own cure.—there must be reciprocity or no Union. which of the two is preferable, will not become a question in the mind of any true patriot.