Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1814-08-08
WHE GAZETTE.
Iamsday, august a, 1914.
Monroe & Pinkaey's Treaty.

the Gazette, copy of the treaty nego-
iciased by MeHrs Monroe and Pinkney,
between Great Brian and the u. States
This treaty, though pronounced By Ms.
lMonroe x j every friend 70 tic Peace &
PROPERTY of this country, as honorable
and advantageous to the United States,
was in = mott unaccountable manner,
rejected BY the Executive, (Mr Jefer-
fon being then PRECEDENT and Mr.. Madif.
on Secretary of State) without even
deignins to lay it before the Senate, who
are the constitutional advilcrs on thefc
fubjstts. Had this treaty been ratified,
and our pretended impartial rulers m4in-
tanned the national independence & fove-
reignty, by properly re6iting ,hole wan
ton and outrageous violations of neutral
rights, Bonaparre's Berlin and Milan de-
crees, the people of this country would
have experienced, (infead of embargoes
and ruin) an uninterrupted ferries Of com.
merce and PROPERTY. Infead Of being
as we now are, involved in all the calams
i,ies of war, furrounded by hottie fleets
and armies, threatening havoc and de-
itrustion in every quarter, we houd
have been at peace with all the world, &
rejoicin with the nations of Europe, thar
the reign of tyranny and opprellion was
at an end
But Tome will fay, as it is impofible
for our rulers TO correct their paa MIL
conduct and retrace their fteps, it is ufe-
lels to fate what our 6tuation migM haze
been. True it is, the pat cannos be r@4
calle-; bat It Is as q e, that the like e.
wills, in future, may be avoided, if the
people will only be juR to themfelves.
Reject the men now 10 power. who have
deceived and impofed upon them by fac
ri6cing their deareft rights. In no in-
itance has this been more manifeit than
in the consequences which have followed
from the rejection of Munfoe's Treaty.
Fortunate will it be, if our CommiiIion-
ers, now in Europe, after the waite of
blood and treafure the country has been
pat to, ihould be able to obtain as good
one.
1t has been faid that our Executive
rejected this treaty on account o. the note
annexed to It but it will be recolleefed
that this note applied only to fuch nations
whole governments had the iernlity to
fubuit to Bonaparte's continental fyftem.
The part which the government of the
United States acted and the coniequent
ifIuing of the orders in council, are freih
in the recollection Of every one.
The Fy5,ies were fecured to the U.
States by the treaty Of 1873, and all
queltions as to boundary lines were ad.
jufted and fettled by the treaty of 1894,
but our infatuated rulers, by the rejcc-
ton VI Monroc's treaty, and their myite-
rious declaration of war, have ,annulled
all former treaties and annihilated the
commerce of nation, !eeond only to
that of Great. Britain and involved the
country in all the horrors Of bloodihed
and ruin.
1t would feem by the Placements which
have been publiihed lince the capture of
Eaifport, as though there was question
whether Moofe I1and and the other III
and in the bay of PaGamaquoddy, lately
taken po6eiiion of by Com. Hardy, were
clearly within the limits of the u. States,
according to the boundary line as festled
between them and the Britiih Province
of New-Brunfwick. But the fact is that
Eaitport (Moofe Iiland)is as clearly with
in the territory of the United States, as
the town of Machias. BY the treaty oil
v,Qo. fhe river Sr. Croix. in the Bay oil