Jay's Treaty and the Slavery Interests of the United States (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Jay's Treaty and the Slavery Interests of the United StatesSo the negotiations dragged. Other matters, as the west ern posts, were taken up and conclusions concerning them reached with comparative ease. Again and again the negro question was brought forward, but always with the same result. Regarding it Jay could only record, On this point we could not agree. At length practically everything else was set tled. Projets of a treaty were interchanged and in neither was the subject of the negroes mentioned, though the evacu ation of the western posts received careful attention. On the 19th of November the negotiations were closed. There was in the treaty 'not a word on the subject of the negroes. Va rions articles, wrote Jay, which have no place in this treaty have, from time to time, been under consideration, but did not meet with mutual approbation and consent, a Of these articles discussed, but not adopted, one providing compensa tion for the negroes carried away was by no means the least important.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.