Letter : Dorchester, [S.C.], to [Thomas Fitzsimmons?], 1786 May 30.

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Letter : Dorchester, [S.C.], to [Thomas Fitzsimmons?], 1786 May 30.

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Letter mainly concerns the coming Congressional convention to consider commerce and trade. Butler emphasizes the desirability of sending experienced merchants of long standing as delegates and notes that the South Carolina legislature declined appointing delegates to the convention. Butler also comments on "how little, we, planters of South Carolina, know of the benefits resulting from trade."

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