Trade is reviving in America to a very great degree –and such is the appearance of things that in a very few years, we may expect to see as firm an union of mercantile interests, betwixt this country and the United States, as ever subsisted. It is in vain to instil prejudices against Great Britain, in the mind of an American merchant ; he knows this to be the ready-money market, and he will come to it accordingly.
Citation: Glasgow Advertiser (Glasgow, United Kingdom), 23 November 1789, available at the Scissors and Paste Database, http://www.scissorsandpaste.net/26.