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Washington signs Jay's Treaty...
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August 29, 1795
COURIER OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Concord, August 29, 1795
* Jay's Treaty signed by George Washington
On page 3 under "The Treaty ratified" is a report datelined "Philadelphia, August 15" that reads, in full: "Pursuant to the consent and advice of the Senate, as expressed in their resolution of the 24th of June last, the President of the United States has ratified the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, between his Britannic Majesty and the U. States of America." (see)
First leaf has a large stain in the lower right corner, some foxing, otherwise good. 4 pages.
wikipedia notes: The Jay Treaty, also known as Jay's Treaty and the Treaty of London of 1794,[1] between the United States and Great Britain 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 highly contested by Jeffersonians but passed 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 in effect until February 29, 1796.
The terms were designed primarily by Treasury Secretary 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, with the U.S. rejection of the Monroe-Pinkney Treaty as tensions escalated to the War of 1812.
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