Excerpt from The American Remembrancer: Or an Impartial Collection of Essays, Resolves, Speeches, &C.; Relative, or Having Affinity, to the Treaty With Great Britain He began by saying, that having been absent in the country, he was prevented from attending their meeting on the 16th - but, conceiving it the duty of every friend to his country, on an occasion so interesting to their commercial rights, he requested permission to state some observations in support of the opinion he should give on the treaty. In doing this, he said he should follow the advice that had just been properly given by the Intendant, and be very moderate. In discussions of such importance, moderation appeared to him essential to the discovery of truth. It was somewhere very well said, that passion and intemperance never failed to wrest the sceptre from reason; and he hoped they would not, on this interesting occasion, prevent the fair application of argument to the judgment of an assembly so numerous and respectable as that was. In examining the treaty, it appeared to him necessary previously to trace the manner in which Mr. Jay, had been appointed to this trust, and the instructions he had received, in order to determine how far it was conducted, in its commencement and progress, upon those principles which were conformable to the spirit and intention of that article of the constitution which respects treaties, and to the candor and fairness which ought to govern in all negociations where any thing like reciprocity is to be expected, and where there was no determination, on the part of the government, or its negociator, that unnecessary and dishonorable sacrifices were to be made. 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.