Identifier: americanauniver08beac (find matches)
Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860-
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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; and that country would makeno commercial treaty whatever with us, even foryears after the Constitution had given Congresspower to enforce its treaties. There were twomain reasons for this: first, that Great Britainhad valuable commercial monopolies (especiallyin the West Indies) for which she thought wecould return no equivalent; second, she wasangry over the sequela of the peace of 1783.She had agreed to surrender the border fortson the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence, and LakeChamplain, and carry off no negroes, on condi-tion that Congress recommend to the Statesto restore confiscated Tory property, and agreeto confiscate no more. Congress did so twiceemphatically, but the States paid no attentionto it: the British government, though it knewvery well how much the recommendation meant,made this an excuse to retain the forts and re-fuse payment for 3,000 negroes carried off; thisin turn hardened the States to refuse com-pliance with the treaty, and the forts being I III. JAY I WIII.V.
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