The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1815-03-29
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~ WASHING TON, March "a.
The Legislature of Massachusetts,, previ
GUS to its late adjournment, ordered to he
printed, TOR the information of the People
TWO or three thousand copies of pamphlet
containing the Treaty of Peace. and ali
the Treaties which have been made be-
tween the United States and Great Britain,
including the Treaty negotiated by Messrs.
Monroe and Pinkney, and rejected by the
President
Ihis order was mere trick ad cahfanduya.
he object evidently was, to induce compar-
ison between the Treaty of Peace. & the Trea
ty last mentioned, as if there was no difference
between Treaty of Peace and Treaty of
commerce. The war having been commen-
ced on our part to resist practical injuries.
producing the effect of war against ms. bv
the capture OF our vessels and seamen. I'M
DER madInlsSible pretences and those pre-
tensions, and the claims founded ON them.
having Ceased 70 operate, our administration
was willing at once to end che war. For
tins purpose four words LET there he
feace' would have been as awaiting as four
thousand. But the British government, as
conditions OF Peace, having demanded a sur
render OF territory and of sovereign rights
from us D.; and having afterwards ratified a
Treaty without containing any one of those
conditions, has certainly, by abandoning
Its lofty tone, yielded the point of hon,
or, the only one In contest since the Peace
OF raris, and placed our government in res
pect to the Treaty on high and honorable
ground.
his IS subject we have never Thought
1t necessary to discuss, because, to defend the
treaty, would be to admit the pIausbility of
the objections urged against it. The Treaty
,s' IN tne view IN which we have placed il,
highly honorable to the United States. In
any view, 1t relinquishes no claim it aban-
dops no right.
1t Is true that 1t embraces no provisions in
regard to reciprocal regulations respecting
seamen, navigation and the fisheries hut
those are proper subjects for treaty of COM
merce, and did not necessarily enter into q
Treaty OF Peace. The subject of settle
ment OF boundaries, though perhaps not
necessary ingredient, entered more obviously
INTO Treaty ofPeace, be cause in restoring
the s,afns quo ante, the question as to what
was the boundary before the war. naturally
occurs, and, being disputed point. can ne
yer be settled at better time. The same
remark will apply to the Indian tribes, whose
hostility on both sides grew out of the hos
tile dispositions OF their white Fathers, and If
II would not naturally end with it, a pacifi-
cation with them is very properly guaranteed
by both powers.
We Contend, then, that had the Treaty
contained only these words" Let there be
Peace" 1T would, under all the circumstau-
ces, have been highly honorable to the u. S.
and a better Treaty, than, from their own
showing, the federal party would have been
willing to accept.
We took up the pen, however, not to dis
cuss the merits OF the Treaty, which are in
aoer hands, but to record a fact, which we
gather from the Boston papers, illustrative of
the disposition of that part of the federal
party who oppose the Treaty Of Peace, and
which sufficiently shews the utter inutijty of
reply to their angry rhapsodies on the sub
Ject. In the publication by the government
OF Massachusetts, of the Treaty rejected by
PRESIDENT Jefferson, the offensive rider, the
note OF Lords Holland and Auckland reoui-
ring the United States to give security for the
maintenance OF It's neutral rights-that note
which caused the Treaty TO be rejected, is
wholly omitted, as though it had never been.
with those who resort TO such deception,
VINO garble state papers to suit their purpo-
ses-of which practice this is not the first in
stance-ail argument is thrown away, all ex
Postuiation VAN. Nat. Int.
March 25.
We have seen New-O Orleans papers to the
oath ult. The news Of the conclusion of a
Peace appears to have reached New Or
leans, by communication from Admiral
Cochrane to the officer who was sent down
with flag relative to the exchange of pri-
soners. The General Order issued on the
occasion will be found in the paper of to-day.
and affords another proof Of the wariness
and energy by which the conduct of Cen.
jackson has been uniformly characterized du-
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