1To James Madison from S. Smith and Buchanan, 24 July 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 July 1804, Baltimore. “We are preparing to dispatch one of our Ships to India on a trading Voyage, in the course of which, it may perhaps be for our interest, that she load at a British, & discharge at some other Port beyond the Cape of Good Hope; we presume, if the commercial part of our Treaty with Great Britain be at an end, that there can be no legal obstruction to her doing so, but as...