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Gerard (search for this): chapter 10
ossessions which they Chap. IX.} 1779. coveted. Gerard to Vergennes, 28 Jan., 1779. Besides; the extense empire to crumble under its own weight. Ibid. Gerard terminated his very long conversation by declaring colonies at the breaking out of the revolution, Gerard to Vergennes, 28 Jan., 1779, and compare Ibid., 19 required by Spain. On the fifteenth of February, Gerard in a private Feb. 15. audience represented to congopted, they would secede from the confederation; Gerard to Vergennes, 14 July, 1779. and they read the sket the president of congress and two other members Gerard to Vergennes, 14 July, 1779. equally well disposed n enter into war without a convention with them. Gerard to Vergennes, 14 July, 1779. The interview lasting till an hour after midnight; but the hearers of Gerard would not undertake to change the opinion of congreon the part of Great Britain, be assured. Further; Gerard wished America to bring about the accession of Spai
Adam Smith (search for this): chapter 10
is private interview, congress re- 17. ferred the subject of the terms of peace to a special committee of five, composed of Gouverneur Morris, of New York; Burke, of North Carolina; Witherspoon, of New Jersey; Samuel Adams, of Massachusetts; and Smith, of Virginia. Of these, Samuel Adams demanded the most territory; while Morris would rather have had no increase than more lands at the south. On the twenty-third the committee reported their Chap. IX.} 1779. Feb. 23. opinion, that the king e of a loan to the amount of five millions of dollars. Ibid., II. 263. On the twenty-sixth of September, congress pro- 26. ceeded to ballot for a minister to negotiate peace; John Adams being nominated by Laurens, of South Carolina, while Smith, of Virginia, proposed Jay, who was the candidate favored by the French minister. On two ballots no election was made. A compromise reconciled the rivalry; Jay, on the twenty-seventh, 27. was elected envoy to Spain. The civil letter in whic
Marchant (search for this): chapter 10
nanimous vote of twelve states, Georgia being absent; Gerry and Jay alone dissenting. The committee proposed to bind the United States never to extend their dominion beyond the limits that might be fixed by the treaty of peace; but the article was set aside. Before the close of the day every question on the conditions of peace was decided; the Gallicans congratulated themselves that the long struggle was ended in their favor; and Dickinson of Delaware, Gouverneur Morris of New York, and Marchant of Rhode Island, two of whom were of that party, were appointed to prepare the commission for the American minister who should be selected to negotiate a peace. Suddenly, on the nineteenth of June, the content- 19. ment of the French minister and his friends was disturbed. Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts, evading a breach of the rules of congress by a change in form, moved resolutions, that the United States have a common right with the English to the fisheries on the Chap. IX.} 177
Sherman (search for this): chapter 10
nister now intervened, and on the twenty-seventh of May congress went back 27. o its resolve, that in no case, by any treaty of peace, should the common right of fishing be given Chap. IX.} 1779. June 3. up. Secret Journals of Congress, II. 161. On the third of June, Gerry, who was from Marblehead, again appeared as the champion of the American right to the fisheries on banks or coasts, as exercised during their political connection with Great Britain. He was in part supported by Sherman; Secret Journals of Congress, II. 162. but New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island alone sustained a right to the fisheries on the coasts of British provinces; and, though Pennsylvania came to their aid, the Gallican party, by a vote of seven states against the four, set aside the main question; so that congress refused even to stipulate for the free and peaceable use and exercise of the common right of fishing on the banks of Newfoundland. In the preceding December the queen o
Thomas Jefferson (search for this): chapter 10
dering how useless and unavailing their labor is, unless the great wheel or spring which is to set the whole in motion is also well attended to and kept in good order. As it is a fact too notorious to be concealed, that congress is rent by party, no man who wishes well to the liberties of his country and desires to see its rights established can avoid crying out, Where are our men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their country? Let this voice, my dear sir, call upon you, Jefferson, and others. Do not, from a mistaken opinion, let our hitherto noble struggle end in ignominy. Believe me, when I tell you, there is danger of it. I shall be much mistaken if administration do not now, from the present state of our currency, dissensions, and other circumstances, push matters to the utmost extremity. Nothing will prevent it but the interposition of Spain, and their disappointed hope from Russia. Washington to George Mason, Middlebrook, 27 March, 1779. Copied by me from
Vergennes (search for this): chapter 10
dence. It has but one course to take, wrote Vergennes before his treaty with Spain, and that is tof nations? The fishery on the high seas, so Vergennes expounded the law of nations, is as free as no pretension whatever to share in them. Vergennes to Luzerne, 25 Sept., 1779. But they hade, a perpetual joint property. Against this Vergennes argued that the conquest had been made for tbreaking out of the revolution, Gerard to Vergennes, 28 Jan., 1779, and compare Ibid., 19 Sept.,th America. The demand was for no more than Vergennes confessed to belong to them by the law of na secede from the confederation; Gerard to Vergennes, 14 July, 1779. and they read the sketch of congress and two other members Gerard to Vergennes, 14 July, 1779. equally well disposed to hiswithout a convention with them. Gerard to Vergennes, 14 July, 1779. The interview lasted frod envoy to Spain. The civil letter in which Vergennes bade farewell to John Adams on his retiring [1 more...]
Luzerne (search for this): chapter 10
coast fisheries by the law of nature and of nations? The fishery on the high seas, so Vergennes expounded the law of nations, is as free as the sea itself, and it is superfluous to discuss the right of the Americans to it. But the coast fisheries belong of right to the proprietary of the coast. Therefore the fisheries on the coasts of Newfoundland, of Nova Scotia, of Canada, belong exclusively to the English; and the Americans have no pretension whatever to share in them. Vergennes to Luzerne, 25 Sept., 1779. But they had hitherto almost alone engaged in the fisheries on the coast of Nova Scotia and in the gulf of St. Lawrence; deeming themselves to have gained a right to them by exclusive and immemorial usage. Further, the New England men had planned and had alone furnished land forces for the first reduction of Cape Breton, and had assisted in the acquisition of Nova Scotia and Canada. The fisheries on their coasts seemed to them, therefore, a perpetual joint property.
George Mason (search for this): chapter 10
erance in our national duty are the only means to avoid misfortunes. In a letter sent by a private hand, he drew the earnest thoughts of George Chap. IX.} 1779. Mason to the ruin that was coming upon the country from personal selfishness and provincial separatism in these words: I view things very differently from what themstances, push matters to the utmost extremity. Nothing will prevent it but the interposition of Spain, and their disappointed hope from Russia. Washington to George Mason, Middlebrook, 27 March, 1779. Copied by me from Ms. draft in Washington's handwriting: printed from the papers of George Mason, in the Virginia Historical RegGeorge Mason, in the Virginia Historical Register, v. 96. Marshall's Life of Washington, i. 291. On the eighteenth of May he wrote to another May 18. friend: I never was, and much less reason have I now to be, afraid of the enemy's arms; but I have no scruples in declaring to you, that I have never yet Chap. IX.} 1779. seen the time in which our affairs, in my opini
Samuel Adams (search for this): chapter 10
n to no proposition, unless it has for its basis peace with France as well as with America. On the report of an able committee on which are found the names of Samuel Adams and Jay, congress, on the fourteenth of January, 1779, resolved Jan. 14. unanimously, that as neither France nor these United States may of right, so they wilsubject of the terms of peace to a special committee of five, composed of Gouverneur Morris, of New York; Burke, of North Carolina; Witherspoon, of New Jersey; Samuel Adams, of Massachusetts; and Smith, of Virginia. Of these, Samuel Adams demanded the most territory; while Morris would rather have had no increase than more lands Samuel Adams demanded the most territory; while Morris would rather have had no increase than more lands at the south. On the twenty-third the committee reported their Chap. IX.} 1779. Feb. 23. opinion, that the king of Spain was disposed to enter into an alliance with the United States, and that consequently independence must be finally acknowledged by Great Britain. This being effected, they proposed as their ultimatum that th
Dickinson (search for this): chapter 10
ting not to engage in the slave-trade was rejected by a unanimous vote of twelve states, Georgia being absent; Gerry and Jay alone dissenting. The committee proposed to bind the United States never to extend their dominion beyond the limits that might be fixed by the treaty of peace; but the article was set aside. Before the close of the day every question on the conditions of peace was decided; the Gallicans congratulated themselves that the long struggle was ended in their favor; and Dickinson of Delaware, Gouverneur Morris of New York, and Marchant of Rhode Island, two of whom were of that party, were appointed to prepare the commission for the American minister who should be selected to negotiate a peace. Suddenly, on the nineteenth of June, the content- 19. ment of the French minister and his friends was disturbed. Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts, evading a breach of the rules of congress by a change in form, moved resolutions, that the United States have a common righ
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