. The fisheries dispute : a suggestion for its adjustment by abrogating the convention of 1818 and resting on the rights and liberties defined in the treaty of 1783 [microform] : a letter to the Honourable William M. Evarts of the United States Senate. Fisheries; Pêche commerciale. THE FISHERIES terms of the Convention of 1818, and recognizing the frank and friendly assurance of their most earnest desire to arrive at a settlement consonant with the rights and interests of the United States, it will be less easy to defend the British Government from the grave responsibility of having
. The fisheries dispute : a suggestion for its adjustment by abrogating the convention of 1818 and resting on the rights and liberties defined in the treaty of 1783 [microform] : a letter to the Honourable William M. Evarts of the United States Senate. Fisheries; Pêche commerciale. THE FISHERIES terms of the Convention of 1818, and recognizing the frank and friendly assurance of their most earnest desire to arrive at a settlement consonant with the rights and interests of the United States, it will be less easy to defend the British Government from the grave responsibility of having persist- ently instigated, first at Ghent, and again at London, the adoption of the Article of 1818 by their persistence in the bold assertion, which British law officers had shown to be un- sound, that we had lost by the War of 1812 our original and ancient rights to the fisheries as recognized and defined in the Treaty of Peace, and by their acting in advance on that groundless suggestion as soon as the war had closed, by warning and seizing our fishing vessels without reason and without law. Nothing, therefore, could more become the noblest char- acteristics of the British Government and the British people, than a frank and practical exhibition of the honorable desire expressed by Lord Rosebery to arrive at a just settlement of the question. If they assent to the abandonment of the Convention of 1818, fraught as it is with errors of law and wrongful acts, and which for two generations has crippled our fishermen in their ancient rights, and subjected the Repub- lic to vexations and aflfronts which have become so intoler- able that the gravest legislative body in the Republic is ready for retaliation ; if they assent to a return to the fair division of the fisheries made by the two empires at the peace of 1783—and when they recall the part borne by Americans, and especially the New Englanders, during two centuries in securing the fisheries,'they may well ad- mire the modera
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