This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...region would mean the acknowledgment of the validity of the Quebec Act, which was one of the causes of the Kevolution. 33This committee represented well the different sections of the country: it included S. Adams of Massachusetts, G. Morris of New York, Witherspoon of New Jersey, Smith of Virginia, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...region would mean the acknowledgment of the validity of the Quebec Act, which was one of the causes of the Kevolution. 33This committee represented well the different sections of the country: it included S. Adams of Massachusetts, G. Morris of New York, Witherspoon of New Jersey, Smith of Virginia, and Burke of North Carolina. In its report it urged the interests of every section and thus threw the whole question into Congress. Journals of Continental Congress (Ford ed.), XIII, 241-243. 34"L'un des delegues m'a montre le plan qu'il a redige pour les limites fixer Quoique cette matiere ne me soit pas assez connue dans ses details pour fixer mon jugement ce plan a beaucoup soulage l'aprehension ou j'etois que quelque grand Proprietaire du Sud ne se chargeat de ce travail. On propose de determiner ces limites en prenant le Traitee de Paris d'une main et l'autre la Proclamation of 1763 cette methode m'a paru simple et facile et je n'ai pu m'empecher d'y applaudir." Gerard to Ver-gennes, March 3. (E. U., VII, no. 67, fol. 131.) The debates on the question of the boundaries and the navigation of the Mississippi continued from the 1st of March to the 19th. On the question of the Mississippi important interests in the West and South united to demand the right of navigation. Those interested in the Northwest Territory pictured the great advantages to the South of controlling the trade of this region. If our people do not get this trade, they argued, the English will get it, and thus become powerful in a region where it is to the interest of both Spain and the United States to keep them out.35 So powerful did the opposition to giving up the Mississippi become that Gerard felt it necessary to interfere. Through one of his partisans he learned that...
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