Such a partnership in domestic government is, I think,
carrying fraternity as far as it will go.
It will be an affront to your sagacity to pursue this matter into all
its details: suffice it to say, that, if this convention for analogous
domestic government is made, it immediately gives a right for the
residence of a consul (in all likelihood some negro or man of color) in
every one of your islands; a Regicide ambassador in London will be at
all your meetings of West India merchants and planters, and, in effect,
in all our colonial councils. Not one order of Council can hereafter be
made, or any one act of Parliament relative to the West India colonies
even be agitated, which will not always afford reasons for protests and
perpetual interference; the Regicide Republic will become an integral
part of the colonial legislature, and, so far as the colonies are
concerned, of the British too. But it will be still worse: as all our
domestic affairs are interlaced more or less intimately with our
external, this intermeddling must everywhere insinuate itself into all
other interior transactions, and produce a copartnership in our domestic
concerns of every description.
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