The St Thomas Treaty

Author : Edward Lillie Pierce
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265197295
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book A Diplomatic Fiasco written by Edward Lillie Pierce and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Diplomatic Fiasco: The Rejected Treaty for St. Thomas Some time ago Scribner's Magazine contained a paper entitled A Diplomatic Episode, by Miss Olive Risley Seward, which undertakes to narrate the negotiations with Denmark for the purchase of the islands of St. Thomas and St. John in 1866 1869 by Mr. Seward (then Secretary of State), and the con nection of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs (mr. Sumner being chairman) with its consideration and failure of ratification. With many words, the introduction of superfluous incidents and assertions of facts not verified by reference to sources, she gives an air of mystery to what was a plain transaction and a very simple question. A map is inserted, as if to produce an optical illusion, on which a number of straight lines converge to St. Thomas as a common centre of islands, continents and commercial marts, just as all roads once led to Rome. Among the statesmen of the time no one except Mr. Seward thought the island worth having at any price, or being taken as a gift for any purpose of peace or war. In a foreign war it would have been useless for offense and dith cult of defense and while, during the civil war, when the Con federates held most of our Southern Atlantic coast, one of the An tilles would have serveda purpose as a coaling and supply station, it is no part of national duty to make military preparation for civil war, certainly not a part of ours with the nation consolidated by the abolition of slavery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.