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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 7: (search)
drafts on their commissioners in Paris for thirty-one and a half millions of livres, at five livres to the dollar, in payment of loanoffice certificates, leaving Franklin and his colleagues to meet the bills of exchange as they could. Of continental bills, five millions of dollars were issued in May, as many more in June, and asaw no resource but in such very considerable loans or subsidies in Europe as could be expected only from an ally; and, before the end of October, they instructed Franklin to assure his most Christian majesty, they hoped protection from his power and magnanimity. There Chap. VII.} 1778. were those in congress who would not placeouble set of counsellors. Clinton repressed the confidence of the secretary of state by faithful reports of the inadequacy of his forces: on the other hand, William Franklin, late governor of New Jersey, aiming at the power and emoluments to be derived Chap. VII.} 1778. from an appointment as the head of a separate organization
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 10: (search)
Chapter 10: The war in the northern department. 1779. while congress employed the summer in debates Chap. X.} 1779. on the conditions of peace, the compulsory inactivity of the British army at the north encouraged discontent and intrigues. There rose up in rivalry with Clinton a body styling themselves the loyal associated refugees, who were impatient to obtain an independent organization under Tryon and William Franklin. Clinton wrote that his resources were insufficient for active operations: the refugees insisted that more alertness would crush the rebellion; they loved to recommend the employment of hordes of savages, and to prepare for confiscating the property of wealthy rebels by their execution or exile. The Virginians, since the expulsion of Lord Dunmore, free from war within their own borders, were enriching themselves by the unmolested culture of tobacco, which was exported through the Chesapeake; or, when that highway was unsafe, by a short land carriage
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 12: (search)
ismissed him from its service. Amsterdam disclaimed the absurd design of concluding a convention independent of their High Mightinesses. The burgomasters only promised their influence in favor of a treaty of amity between the two powers, when the independence of the United States of America should be recognised by the English. Declaration of van Berckel, 23 Sept., 1778, in Dip. Cor., i. 457. To get rid of everything of which England could Sept. complain, the offer made in April by Franklin, Arthur Lee, and John Adams, to negotiate a treaty of commerce between America and the Netherlands, together with a copy of the commercial treaty between the United States and France, was, near the end of October, communicated to the states-general. They Oct. promptly consigned the whole matter to rest in the manner which the stadholder had concerted, and which met exactly the hope of the British secretary of state. Private letter of the Prince of Orange to Yorke, 27 Oct., 1778; Secret
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 19: (search)
uccor in money, such were his words, we may make a feeble and expiring effort in our next campaign, in all probability the period of our opposition. Next to a loan of money, a constant naval superiority on these coasts is the object most interesting; and without exaggeration he explained the rapid advancement of his country in population and prosperity, and the certainty of its redeeming in a short term of years the comparatively inconsiderable debts it might have occasion to contract. To Franklin he wrote in the same strain; and Lafayette addressed a like memorial of ripe wisdom to Vergennes. While the United States thus importuned a foreign prince for help, their people, in proportion to numbers, was richer than the people to whose king from their own want of government they were obliged to appeal. Can France organize its resources, and are the people of the republican America incapable of doing so? Can monarchy alone give to a nation unity? Is freedom necessarily anarchical?
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 21: (search)
ch minister at Philadelphia of his want of a conciliatory temper. Franklin, too, though with reluctance, suffered himself to be made the chan censures which Vergennes did not spare. In the favor of congress Franklin lost ground by his compliance, while Adams was supported more hearated to the French ministry his letter of advice from Washington. Franklin had lately written: If it is found unable to procure the aids thated to go far in complying with the request of the United States. Franklin had Chap. XXI.} 1781. already obtained the promise of a gift of swithout superintending it, paid all arrears out of the fund which Franklin had obtained from France. Chap. XXI.} 1781. South Carolina was rere first agreed upon; then on the ballot the choice fell upon Jay, Franklin, Henry Laurens, and Thomas Jefferson. Of these, the last was detas of his wife. Congress have done very well, wrote John Adams to Franklin, to join Chap. XXI.} 1781. others in the commission for peace, wh
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 25: (search)
just been made Chap. XXV.} 1781. Nov. 19. happy by the birth of a dauphin, received the glad news in the queen's apartment. The very last sands of the life of the Count de Maurepas were running out; but he could still recognise de Lauzun, and the tidings threw a halo round his death-bed. The joy at court penetrated the whole people, and the name of Lafayette was pronounced with veneration. History, said Vergennes, offers few examples of a success so complete. All the wild agree, wrote Franklin to Washington, that no expedition was ever better planned or better executed. It brightens the glory that must accompany your name to the latest posterity. The first tidings of the surrender of Cornwallis reached England from France, about noon on the twenty-fifth of November. It is all over, said 25. Lord North many times, under the deepest agitation and distress. Fox—to whom, in reading history, the defeats of armies of invaders, from Xerxes' time downwards, gave the greatest satisf
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 26: (search)
t American secretary for foreign affairs, communicated to Franklin the final instructions for negotiating peace; and the firm tone of Franklin's reply awakened new hopes in congress. While the conditions of peace were under consideration, Americority of nineteen. The next day, Edmund Burke wrote to Franklin: I congratulate you as the friend of America; I trust notymaster for himself, and lucrative places for his kin. Franklin in Paris had watched the process of the house of commons tion which was to bring a breathing time to the world. Franklin had rightly divined the future, and his overture arrived e, and gave his approval, alike to the attempt to sound Mr. Franklin, and to the employment of Oswald, who had passed many yg as friend to friend, Shelburne answered the overture of Franklin in a letter, which is the key to the treaty that followedBritish nation should be ripe for peace. In this manner, the American negotiation was left in the hands of Franklin alone.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 27: (search)
where on the sixteenth he went straightway to Franklin. 16. The latter, speaking not his own opiniofairs, he allowed himself to be introduced by Franklin to Vergennes, who received with pleasure assuld ever have a real peace. In a like spirit, Franklin intrusted to Oswald Notes for Conversation, inet on his report agreed to send him again to Franklin to acquaint him of their readiness to treat ft welcome. After receiving him at breakfast, Franklin took him in his own carriage to Versailles; ace the independence of the United States, and Franklin refused to accept at second hand that indepenrequent conversations of the young envoy with Franklin, who received him with constant hospitality, d to the recovery of Gibraltar for Spain; and Franklin answered: It is nothing to America who has Gi82. can conditions for a separate peace. But Franklin would not unfold the American conditions to ao treat with America; but, when questioned by Franklin, he was obliged to own that he was acting wit[8 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 28: (search)
aw any instance of his being insincere, wrote Franklin, long after Shelburne had retired from officenfidence in the sincerity and good faith of Dr. Franklin has not been misplaced, and that he will coensation of refugees a part of the treaty. Franklin recommended, but not as an ultimatum, a perfe closed with the understanding by Oswald that Franklin was ready to sign the preliminary articles ofd American affairs, accepted the ultimatum of Franklin in all its branches; only, to prevent the biction, as they contain unequivocal proofs of Dr. Franklin's sincerity and confidence in those with w countries. In this view I go further with Dr. Franklin perhaps than he is aware of, and further, po soon and never waited too long, belonged to Franklin, who had proceeded alone to the substantial c be a tacit confession of your independence. Franklin had made no objection to the commission, and still believed that it would do. To Franklin, Jay made the remark: The count does not wish to see o[4 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 29: (search)
to the Americans, was communicated to Jay and Franklin. Jay was thrown from his equipoise. Having s (if any should arise) may be relied on; but Franklin neither criminated France, nor compromised hi: I look upon the treaty as now closed. Both Franklin and Jay had agreed that, if it should be apprtif et de certain á cet égard, Messrs. Jay et Franklin se tenant dans la reserve la plus absolue à m same day, Adams called for the first time on Franklin, who at once put him on his guard as to the B the unsettled points of the treaty. Jay and Franklin had left the north-eastern boundary to be setunsettled parts of the coast of Nova Scotia. Franklin said further: I observe as to catching fish yefin- 4. itively overruled the objections of Franklin to the recognition by treaty of the validity and so would have been fatal to the treaty. Franklin saw the danger and interposed: If any furtherby a declaration in the preamble. Friends of Franklin gathered around him, and as the Duke of Roche[12 more...]
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