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026 - Chapter 27 - Part 2 · The American Revolution A Historical Overview Vol. 3

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  Speaker 1: Section twenty six of History of the Rise, Progress and
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  Speaker 1: Termination of the American Revolution, Volume three by Mercy Otis Warren.
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. History of the Rise, Progress and
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  Speaker 1: Termination of the American Revolution, Volume three by Mercy Otis Warren,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty seven, Part two. In addition to all other
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  Speaker 1: difficulties apprehended by speculative and judicious Americans previous to the
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  Speaker 1: provisional articles terminating in a definitive treaty of peace, they
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  Speaker 1: dreaded the idea of a large body of loyalists left
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  Speaker 1: by Great Britain to make terms of reconciliation with their
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  Speaker 1: offended countrymen. It was a very precarious hope on which
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  Speaker 1: these refugees have to build. They had little reason as
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  Speaker 1: absurd to expect the resentment of all people would be
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  Speaker 1: annihilated merely by the recommendation of the American agents. They
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  Speaker 1: could not but be sensible that if the governing powers
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  Speaker 1: were mollified and should recommend moderation and foreparents. Yet, the
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  Speaker 1: mutual injuries and difference between individuals and families in consequence
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  Speaker 1: of political dissonance, would not be likely to buy dormant,
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  Speaker 1: but would be brought back to recollection. On every trivial occasion.
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  Speaker 1: It was to be expected that old animosities would be
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  Speaker 1: raked open that would forever disturb the peace of society.
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  Speaker 1: When they took the stand beside their ancured neighbors, weeping
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  Speaker 1: the loss of a father, a husband, or a son
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  Speaker 1: who had perished in the dreadful conflict, many of them
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  Speaker 1: by the hands of a class of men now thrown
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  Speaker 1: back on their wounded feelings. In the meantime, the business
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  Speaker 1: of negotiation went forward among the belligerent powers. Some new
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  Speaker 1: arrangements were made. Mister Hartley was sent to Paris, whose
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  Speaker 1: commissions superseded that of mister Oswald. We have seen that
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  Speaker 1: mister John Adams had left Holland and joined the planted
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  Speaker 1: potentiaries of the United States previous to the agreement of
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  Speaker 1: Provisional Articles for Peace signed November one thousand, seven hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty two. He was no favored at the officers
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  Speaker 1: and administrators of affairs at the Galician court. His manners
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  Speaker 1: were not adapted to render him acceptable in their refined
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  Speaker 1: and polished nation, nor did he appear to have much
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  Speaker 1: partiality for or confidence in them. Affirmed for the interests
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  Speaker 1: of his country, and tenacious of its claims, he advocated
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  Speaker 1: and defended them with ability, and by his determined spirit,
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  Speaker 1: was essentially serviceable in maintaining the stipulations required in behalf
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  Speaker 1: of the United States. Nor was mister J. Leston, who
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  Speaker 1: was or indefagtable to counteract everything he thought might belitate
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  Speaker 1: with the interests of America. He invalidated difficulties as they
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  Speaker 1: arose with the accuracy of the statesmen, and obviated every
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  Speaker 1: objection to just and equal advantages in the treaty which
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  Speaker 1: his countrymen required. Doctor Franklin's own attachment to the interest
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  Speaker 1: of the United States, and his conspicuous talents as a negotiator,
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  Speaker 1: reclude the necessity of any observations on his abilities, his character,
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  Speaker 1: or his conduct. It has been before observed that Congress
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  Speaker 1: had inadvertently endeavored to vetter their agents by directing them
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  Speaker 1: to be under the councils of France. Rather too much
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  Speaker 1: for free and independent nation. These gentlemen considered such restrictions
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  Speaker 1: dishonorary to themselves and their country, and by their vigor
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  Speaker 1: zeal And address acted through every stage of the business
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  Speaker 1: as the agents of a free nation not to be
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  Speaker 1: influenced by foreign considerations or councils. Near ten months elapsed
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  Speaker 1: after signing the provisional articles, before the definitive Treaty was completed.
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  Speaker 1: Previous to the adjustment of all the articles contained to
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  Speaker 1: this treaty, much address altercation, intrigue and finesse among the parties,
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  Speaker 1: as is usual on similar occasions, was intermixed with fair negotiation.
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  Speaker 1: All preliminaries at nine agree to This important instrument was
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  Speaker 1: signed to Paris on the third of September one thousand,
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred and eighty three. David Hartley, Esquire on the
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  Speaker 1: part of Great Britain, and Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and
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  Speaker 1: John Adams, as Squire's in Behalf of America, affixed their
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  Speaker 1: names and their seals to the Treaty for the Restoration
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  Speaker 1: of Armony between Britain, the Ancient Pope and Parent and
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  Speaker 1: the Emancipated Colonies and Center Forward for the ratification of
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  Speaker 1: Congress and of the British Parliament. The definitive Treaty between
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  Speaker 1: Great Britain and the United States contained only nine articles
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  Speaker 1: The first of these was a full and complete acknowledgement
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  Speaker 1: of the independence of America. His Britannic Majesty an article
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  Speaker 1: first acknowledges the United States viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Bay,
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  Speaker 1: Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
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  Speaker 1: and Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia to
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  Speaker 1: be free, sovereign and independent states, that he treats with
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  Speaker 1: them as such, and for himself, his ears and successors
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  Speaker 1: relinquishes all claim to the government, property and territory of
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  Speaker 1: rights of the same and every part thereof. On the
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  Speaker 1: same day, the third of September, the Definitive Treaty between
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  Speaker 1: Great Britain and in France was signed to Psailles by
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  Speaker 1: the Duke of Manchester in behalf of the King of
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  Speaker 1: England and on the part of France. For the counter
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  Speaker 1: the Gens, the County Aranda and the Duke of Manchester
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  Speaker 1: mutually exchanged their seals for the happy event of peace
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  Speaker 1: between England and Spain. The Definitive Treaty of Peace and
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  Speaker 1: Friendship between His Britannic Majesty and the King of Spain
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  Speaker 1: was also signed at Versailles the third day of September
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  Speaker 1: one thousand, seven hundred and eighty three. All impediments that
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  Speaker 1: barred the accommodation between England and Balm had been removed,
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  Speaker 1: and peace and harmony restored between His Britannic Majesty and
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  Speaker 1: the States General of the United Provinces. Preliminary articles for
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  Speaker 1: this purpose were adjusted and signed at Paris by the
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  Speaker 1: Ministers of the respective courts on the second of September
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  Speaker 1: one thousand, seven hundred and eighty three. The King of
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  Speaker 1: Sweden had invited a treaty of amity and Colomus America
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  Speaker 1: in a very handsome, complimentary manner. He observed that he
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  Speaker 1: was desirous of forming a connection with the people who
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  Speaker 1: had so well established their independence, and old by their
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  Speaker 1: wisdom and bravery, so well deserved it. This treaty had
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  Speaker 1: been signed the third of April one thousand, seven hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty three, and a stipulation made for its continuance
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  Speaker 1: for the term of fifteen years, before any revision or
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  Speaker 1: renewers should take place. Denbark ordered the American flag to
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  Speaker 1: be treated like that of republics in the first order. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: after the independence of the United States was explicitly acknowledged
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  Speaker 1: by the King of Great Britain. Most of the European
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  Speaker 1: nations were or appeared to be hard to forming connections
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  Speaker 1: with a young, growing republic. The independent rank of America
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  Speaker 1: was now viewed in connection with the prolific soil, abundant resources,
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  Speaker 1: commercial genius, and political principles which indicated her rising into
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  Speaker 1: eminence and consideration that would set her on a footing
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  Speaker 1: with any nation on Earth, if she did not become
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  Speaker 1: corrupted by foreign vices or sunk by the indulgence of
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  Speaker 1: her own foolish fashions. The Batavian Republic was the first
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  Speaker 1: nation beyond the Atlantic after the French, who sent it
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  Speaker 1: envoy in form to the Congress of America on the
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  Speaker 1: thirty first of October one thousand, seven hundred and eighty three.
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  Speaker 1: Peter John van Burkell was received by them as Minister
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  Speaker 1: flend of Potentiary. When the States General of the United
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  Speaker 1: and Netherlands, by the President and members of Congress, every
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  Speaker 1: mark of respect, cordiality and friendship was shewn, and on
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  Speaker 1: the other side it was amply returned by the address
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  Speaker 1: and politeness of the Dutch minister who with manly eloquence
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  Speaker 1: and grace, addressed that venerable body, and expressed his own
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  Speaker 1: regard in the esteem of his constituents, but the citizens
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  Speaker 1: of the United States. In the President's reply, he acknowledged
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  Speaker 1: the high sense Americans, added the importance of the alliance,
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  Speaker 1: and the gratitude they all felt the services rendered the
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  Speaker 1: United States by individuals of his nation, and particularly by
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  Speaker 1: himself and family previous to the completion of the Late
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  Speaker 1: Treaty end of Section twenty six