RARE 1796 DEBATES CONGRESS JOHN JAYS TREATY REVOLUTION NEGRO THOMAS JEFFERSON NR

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RARE 1796 DEBATES CONGRESS JAYS TREATY REVOLUTION NEGRO Debates in the House of Representatives of the United States, during The First Session of the Fourth Congress. Upon The Constitutional Powers of the House, With respect to Treaties. Philadelphia: Printed for Benj. Franklin Bache. By Bioren & Madan. Sold at No. 112, Market Street. 1796. 1 st Edition. Part 1, only. 386 pages. Interior remains tight, clean and complete. Pages with some toning and minor spotting remain better than average. Small tear to the center of the title page. Marbled end-pages. Volume lacking the front and rear boards. Most of bacsktrip lacking. Everything being said volume remains worthy of the needed repair. A fantastic find for the collector or anyone interested in this subject matter. Scarce. 8.50 by 5.00 inches. Debates related to "Jay's Treaty," which was hotly contested in Congress and in American public opinion. The Treaty of Paris in 1783, which ended the American Revolution, provided for the British to cede their posts in the Northwest Territory, and ease restrictions on US-British trade. The years following did not see either provision successfully implemented. In fact, with the escalation to war between France and Britain, American ships and seamen were subjected to seizure by Great Britain. Tensions mounted between the fledgling American government and Britain until President Washington sent John Jay to negotiate a treaty. The highly unpopular treaty, an attempt to prevent a renewal of hostilities with Britain, was ratified in June of 1795. Thomas Jefferson, a strong supporter of France, was highly critical of the treaty, while Alexander Hamilton and his following were very much in favor. The intense debates furthered the creation of the party system in the new United States. Please refer to The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 13, No. 2. (April, 1928) Pages 185-198. Titled “Interesting Notes on great Britain and Canada with Respect to the Negro” by William Renwick Riddell. The Jay Treaty , also known as Jay's Treaty , The British Treaty and the Treaty of London of 1794 was a treaty between the United States and Great Britain which averted war, solved many issues left over from the American Revolution, and opened ten years of largely peaceful trade in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars. It was hotly contested by Jeffersonians but was ratified by Congress and became a central issue in the formation of the First Party System. The treaty was signed in November 1794, but was not proclaimed to be in effect until February 29, 1796. The terms were designed primarily by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton with strong support from President George Washington and chief negotiator John Jay. The treaty increased trade and averted war, which pleased both sides. Jay obtained the primary American requirements: British withdrawal from the posts that they occupied in the Northwest Territory of the United States, which they had promised to abandon in 1783. Wartime debts and the US-Canada boundary were sent to arbitration — one of the first major uses of arbitration in diplomatic history. The Americans were also granted some rights to trade with British possessions in India and the Caribbean in exchange for American limits on the export of cotton. The treaty averted possible war but immediately became one of the central issues in domestic American politics, with Thomas Jefferson and James Madison leading the opposition. They feared that closer economic ties with Britain would strengthen the Federalists. The treaty encouraged trade between the two nations for a decade, but it broke down after 1803. The main parts of the treaty expired after 10 years. Efforts to agree on a replacement treaty failed in 1806; the U.S. rejected the Monroe-Pinkney Treaty as tensions escalated to the War of 1812. A serious book for a serious collection. read more

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