speaks of for study to facilitate rather than impede which would give me pleasure as far as it can be made to comport with the purposes for which he is employed With the greatest esteem and regard I am & c TO ROBERT MORRIS Mount Vernon 12 April 1786 DEAR SIR I give you the trouble of this letter at the instance of Mr Dalby of Alexandria who is called to Philadel phia to attend what he conceives to be a vexatious lawsuit respecting a slave of his whom a society Quakers in the city formed for such purposes have attempted to liberate The merits of this case no doubt appear upon trial From Mr Dalby's state of the matter it should seem that this society is not only acting repugnantly to justice so far as its conduct concerns strangers but in my opinion impoliticly with respect to the State the city in particular without being able except by acts of tyranny and oppression to ac