153] slave’s FRIEND’. 13 brandy. There, my son, read what Washington himself, said of slavery. Benj. [Reads in Sparks’s edition of Washington’s Papers.] “ I can only say, that there is no! a man living, who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it, (slavery).” Letter to Robert Morris. “ Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country. ’’—Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette. “ I never mean, unless some particular circumstance should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.” —Letter to John F. Mercer,
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