The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-12-15

countries, the true barrier to each province,
wouls be given up to France" This is pre-
ciseiy the principle uniformly supported by
the undersigned, to Wit, that the recognition
OF a boundary gives up to the nation, in whose
behalf 1t is made, all the Indian tribes and
countries wit an that boundary 1t was on this
principle that the undersigned have confident
ly relied on the treaty Of 1888, which fixes &
recognizes the boundary of the ". s. without
making any reservation respecting the Indian
tribes. 3,
But the British plenipotentiaries. unable to
produce solitary precedent of one European
powertreating for the savages inhabiting with
IN the dominions of another, have been COM
PEELED, in support of their principle, to refer
10 the lierman empire, a body consisting OF
several independent states, recognized as such
oy the whole world, and separately maintain
ing with foreign powers the relations be-
longing to such condition. Can it be ne
cessary to prove that there is no sort Of a
nalogy between the political situation of those
civilized communities, and that of the wander
ing tribes OF North American savages
In referring to what the British plenipo-
tentiaries represent as alarming and novel
pretensions. what G. B. can never recognize,
the undersigned might complain that these al
lodged pretcnsions have not been stated, Ell
Their In terms OF in substance, as expressed by
themselves. This, however. is the less ma
terial, as any further recognition of them by G..
Is. is not necessary nor required. On the o.
ther hand, they can never admit nor recognize
the principles or pretensicns asserted in the
course OF this correspondence BY the British
plenipotentiaries, and which, to them, appear
novel and alarming.
The article proposed by the British pleni-
potentiaries, in their last note, not including
the Indian tribes as parties in the peace, and
leaving the u. States free to effect it's object
IN the mode consonant with the relations
which they have constantly maintained with
those tribes, partaking also of the nature of
an amnesty, and being at the same time recip-
rocai, Is not Liable to that objection-and &C
cords with the views uniformly professed by
the undersigned, of placing these tribes pre-
cisely, and in every respect, in the same Stu
alton as that in which they stood before the
commencement of hostilities This article,
thus proposing only what the undersigned
nave SO often assured the British plenipotenti-
aries would necessarily follow, if indeed it has
not already, as rs highly probable, preceded a
peace between &. Britain and the y. States.
lhe undersigned agree to admit it, in sub
stance, as provisional article, subject, in the
manner originally proposed by the British go
Vernment to the appreciation or rejection of the
government of the u, S. which, having given no
instructions to the undersigned on this point.
cannot be bound By any article they may ad-
NIT on the subject.
1t Will, OF course, be understood, that If, I'm.
happily, peace should not be the result of the
present negotiation, the article thus condition
ally agreed to shall be of no effect, and shall
not, in any future negotiation, be brought for
ward oy either party, by way Of argument or
precedent
This article having been presented as "A
Indispensable preliminary. and being now ac-
cepted, the undersigned request the British
plempotentiaries to communicate 10 them the
project of treaty embracing all the points
deemed material by g.. Britain the under
dersigned engaging on their part to deliver
Immediately after counter -projet with res
pect to all the articles to which they NAV not
agree and on the subjects deemed material by
the U. S. and, which may be omitted in the
British projet
(Signed)
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS,
J. A. BAYARD,
HENRY CLAY,
IONA. RUSSELL;
ALBERT GALLATIN.
The remainder Of these documents, yix
Nos. TX, X, 4I, XII, haze already 6ee,, hu5-
hshed. and embrace the 9ohole series Of Gocu-
nnents transmitted to Congress.l