1From Thomas Jefferson to the Senators and Representatives of Virginia, 11 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
It is alledged that in some of the Southern states, there does not exist a single instance of the recovery of a British debt in their courts, though so many years have expired since the establishment of peace between the two countries. Again it is said that ‘the few attempts to recover British debts in the county courts of Virginia have universally failed, and these are the courts wherein from...