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JAY TO ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON 389
2dly. That supposing the Spanish right of conquest
did not extend over all that country, still that it was
possessed by free and independent nations of Indians,
whose lands we could not with any propriety consider
as belonging to us. He therefore proposed to run a
longitudinal line on the east side of the river, for our
western boundary; and said that he did not mean to
dispute about a few acres or miles, but wished to run
it in a manner that would be convenient to us ; for
though he could never admit the extent we claimed,
yet he did not desire to crowd us up to our exact limits.
As it did not appear to me expedient to enter fully
into the discussion of these objections until after he
had marked the line he proposed, I told him I would
forbear troubling him with any remarks on the subject until the points in controversy should be reduced
to a certainty; and therefore I desired him to mark
on the map the line he proposed, and to place it as
far to the west as his instructions would possibly
admit of. He promised to do it, and to send me the
map with his proposed line marked on it in a day or
two.
I then gave him a copy of my commission, and
showed him the original. He returned it to me with
expressions of satisfaction, and then changed the subject by desiring me if, after receiving his map and
examining his lines, I should find it in any respect
inconvenient, that I would mark such other line on it
as would, in my opinion, be more agreeable to America, assuring me that he had nothing more at heart
than to fix such a boundary between us as might be
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 2 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Place of Publication | New York, London |
| Date | [1890-93] |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000410 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | JAY TO ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON 389 2dly. That supposing the Spanish right of conquest did not extend over all that country, still that it was possessed by free and independent nations of Indians, whose lands we could not with any propriety consider as belonging to us. He therefore proposed to run a longitudinal line on the east side of the river, for our western boundary; and said that he did not mean to dispute about a few acres or miles, but wished to run it in a manner that would be convenient to us ; for though he could never admit the extent we claimed, yet he did not desire to crowd us up to our exact limits. As it did not appear to me expedient to enter fully into the discussion of these objections until after he had marked the line he proposed, I told him I would forbear troubling him with any remarks on the subject until the points in controversy should be reduced to a certainty; and therefore I desired him to mark on the map the line he proposed, and to place it as far to the west as his instructions would possibly admit of. He promised to do it, and to send me the map with his proposed line marked on it in a day or two. I then gave him a copy of my commission, and showed him the original. He returned it to me with expressions of satisfaction, and then changed the subject by desiring me if, after receiving his map and examining his lines, I should find it in any respect inconvenient, that I would mark such other line on it as would, in my opinion, be more agreeable to America, assuring me that he had nothing more at heart than to fix such a boundary between us as might be |
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