The Duplicate Letters The Fisheries And The Mississippi Documents Relating To Transactions At The Negotiation Of Ghent

Author : John Quincy Adams
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230081045
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Duplicate Letters, the Fisheries and the Mississippi; Documents Relating to Transactions at the Negotiation of Ghent written by John Quincy Adams and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 edition. Excerpt: ...of 1783. To support this charge, Mr. Adams says I impute fo my colleagues an opinion thar the Independence of the United States was derived from the treaty of 1783 In what part of tnv letter he finds sudh an imputation I-am at a loss to discover. In contending against Any peculiarity of that treaty, I simply said.'I could not believe that the Independence of the United States was derived from the treaty of 1783." Without admitting such a derivation of our independence. I could not perceive, indeed, any ground for the peculiarity ascribed lo that treaty; for a mere recognition of a prior tight furnished none; no other treaty containing such recognition having been considered as possessing it. In denying such a derivation, although fairly inferrable from 'he doctrine of Mr. Adams, I charged no one with believing in it, but I removed the only foundation, as I conceived, on" which the doctrine of Mr. Adams could be supported; and now, in disclaiming that foundation, unless he can show a better, he virtually renounces that doctrine. He says, also, that I impute to my colleagues "that they rested their' claim to the fishing privilege on prescription;" but he adds that, '.as the settlement of the colonies thems'elve had not been of time immemorial, it was not, and never was pretended to be a title by prescription." This appears to have been a recent discovery, In the letier of the 25th of December, above mentioned, it is said, this liberty, then," (1783) "no new grant, bat a mere recognition of a prior right always enjoyed.'1' And a'gnin, in the samp letter, '.without adverting to the ground of prior and immemorial usage." &c. If I erroneously' inferred from these passages that a title was claimed from...