1To George Washington from the Manufacturers of Snuff and Refined Sugar, 17 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Memorial of the Manufacturers of Snuff and Refined Sugar , R espectfully S heweth : T HAT your memorialists, having, in vain, remonstrated to the respective Houses of Congress against the imposition of an excise upon their infant manufactures, are impelled, as a last resort, earnestly to solicit the interposition of your constitutional authority, to prevent the establishment of a measure...