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4o6 CORRESPONDENCE AND PU;BLIC PAPERS.
because we could not make peace at such an expense,
and because such an attempt would irritate America
still more, would perpetuate her resentments, and
induce her to use every possible means of retaliation
by withholding supplies in future to the fishery, and
by imposing the most rigid restraints on a commerce
with Britain.
That it would not be less impolitic to oppose us on the
point of boundary and the navigation of the M ississippi:
ist. Because our right to extend to the Mississippi
was proved by our charters and other acts of government, and our right to its navigation was deducible
from the laws of nature, and the consequences of
revolution, which vested in us every British territorial
right. It was easy therefore to foresee what opinions
and sensations the mere attempt to dispossess us of
these rights would diffuse throughout America.
2dly. Because the profits of an extensive and
lucrative commerce, and not the possession of vast
tracts of wilderness, were the true objects of a commercial European nation.
That by our extending to the Mississippi to the
west, and to the proclamation bounds of Canada to
the north, and by consenting to the mutual free nav-
tion of our several lakes and rivers, there would be
an inland navigation from the Gulf of St. Lawrence
to that of Mexico, by means of which the inhabitants
west and north of the mountains might with more
ease be supplied with foreign commodities, than from
ports on the Atlantic, and that this immense and
growing trade would be in a manner monopolized by
| 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 | 00000427 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 4o6 CORRESPONDENCE AND PU;BLIC PAPERS. because we could not make peace at such an expense, and because such an attempt would irritate America still more, would perpetuate her resentments, and induce her to use every possible means of retaliation by withholding supplies in future to the fishery, and by imposing the most rigid restraints on a commerce with Britain. That it would not be less impolitic to oppose us on the point of boundary and the navigation of the M ississippi: ist. Because our right to extend to the Mississippi was proved by our charters and other acts of government, and our right to its navigation was deducible from the laws of nature, and the consequences of revolution, which vested in us every British territorial right. It was easy therefore to foresee what opinions and sensations the mere attempt to dispossess us of these rights would diffuse throughout America. 2dly. Because the profits of an extensive and lucrative commerce, and not the possession of vast tracts of wilderness, were the true objects of a commercial European nation. That by our extending to the Mississippi to the west, and to the proclamation bounds of Canada to the north, and by consenting to the mutual free nav- tion of our several lakes and rivers, there would be an inland navigation from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to that of Mexico, by means of which the inhabitants west and north of the mountains might with more ease be supplied with foreign commodities, than from ports on the Atlantic, and that this immense and growing trade would be in a manner monopolized by |
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