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i4 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
able to judge, than can be prescribed now, how far you may
state the difficulty which may occur in restraining the
violence of some of our exasperated citizens.
If the British ministry should hint at any supposed predilection in the United States for the French nation, as
warranting the whole or any part of these instructions, you
will stop the progress of this subject, as being irrelative to
the question in hand. It is a circumstance which the
British nation have no right to object to us; because we
are free in our affections and independent in our government. But it may be safely answered, upon the authority
of the correspondence between the Secretary of State and
Mr. Hammond, that our neutrality has been scrupulously
observed.
II. A second cause of your mission, but not inferior in
dignity to the preceding, though subsequent in order, is to
draw to a conclusion all points of difference between the
United States and Great Britain, concerning the treaty
of peace.
You will therefore be furnished with copies of the negotiation upon the inexecution and infractions of that treaty
and will resume that business. Except in this negotiation,
you have been personally conversant with the whole of the
transactions connected with the treaty of peace. You were
a minister at its formation,-the Secretary of--Foreign Affairs
when the sentiments of the Congress, under the confederation, were announced through your office ; and as Chief
Justice you have been witness to what has passed in our
courts, and know the real state of our laws, with respect to
British debts. It will be superfluous, therefore, to add
more to you, than to express a wish that these debts, and
the interest claimed upon them, and all things relating to
them, be put outright in a diplomatic discussion, as being
certainly of a judicial nature, to be decided by our courts:
and if this cannot be accomplished, that you support the
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 4 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Place of Publication | New York, London |
| Date | [1890-93] |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000041 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | i4 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. able to judge, than can be prescribed now, how far you may state the difficulty which may occur in restraining the violence of some of our exasperated citizens. If the British ministry should hint at any supposed predilection in the United States for the French nation, as warranting the whole or any part of these instructions, you will stop the progress of this subject, as being irrelative to the question in hand. It is a circumstance which the British nation have no right to object to us; because we are free in our affections and independent in our government. But it may be safely answered, upon the authority of the correspondence between the Secretary of State and Mr. Hammond, that our neutrality has been scrupulously observed. II. A second cause of your mission, but not inferior in dignity to the preceding, though subsequent in order, is to draw to a conclusion all points of difference between the United States and Great Britain, concerning the treaty of peace. You will therefore be furnished with copies of the negotiation upon the inexecution and infractions of that treaty and will resume that business. Except in this negotiation, you have been personally conversant with the whole of the transactions connected with the treaty of peace. You were a minister at its formation,-the Secretary of--Foreign Affairs when the sentiments of the Congress, under the confederation, were announced through your office ; and as Chief Justice you have been witness to what has passed in our courts, and know the real state of our laws, with respect to British debts. It will be superfluous, therefore, to add more to you, than to express a wish that these debts, and the interest claimed upon them, and all things relating to them, be put outright in a diplomatic discussion, as being certainly of a judicial nature, to be decided by our courts: and if this cannot be accomplished, that you support the |
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