Evidently none of
Smallwood’s hires could be spared to clean up the White House
grounds. Commissioner Thornton offered to throw
himself into the breach. "I have offered to do all in my power
in laying out a garden and other conveniences,”
he wrote to Stoddert, “if my colleagues will only allow me two or
three common laborers....."
Quote from Slave Labor in the Capital, page 156
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