The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 . ation,he never could have accomplished all that Franklin,secured ; and yet his persistency and his undoubtedgenius for affairs political enabled him to obtain was Adamss rough aggressiveness that caused theFrench minister Luzerne to have Congress associatewith him as peace commissioners Franklin, Jay, Lau-rens, and Thomas Jefferson—a division of responsibilityentirely agreeable to Adams. While Franklin and Jaywere spending the better part of the year 1782 in nego-tiations with Oswald, the British representative, Adamssuccessfully negotiated
The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 . ation,he never could have accomplished all that Franklin,secured ; and yet his persistency and his undoubtedgenius for affairs political enabled him to obtain was Adamss rough aggressiveness that caused theFrench minister Luzerne to have Congress associatewith him as peace commissioners Franklin, Jay, Lau-rens, and Thomas Jefferson—a division of responsibilityentirely agreeable to Adams. While Franklin and Jaywere spending the better part of the year 1782 in nego-tiations with Oswald, the British representative, Adamssuccessfully negotiated a treaty with Holland; and,fresh from this diplomatic triumph in October, he ar-rived in Paris to give to Jay the full support of his ex-perience and decision of character. Friendly to France,indeed, he had no particular affinity for that country;hence it violated no feelings on Adamss part to cometo terms with England w-hile Vergennes was restingin fancied security that he had delayed indefinitely 284 </,:, ~& -*» 1*&: -^^ mk. LOUD SHELBUBNE PEACE THAT PROVES NO PEACE the negotiations he professed himself anxious to ex-pedite. From April 6 to June 23,1782, Franklin and Oswald,the British commissioner, were trying to arrive at somesatisfactory basis of negotiations. Jefferson was inAmerica; Laurens was a prisoner in the Tower of Lon-don ; Adams was busy in Holland. Satisfied that Jaywas accomplishing nothing in Spain, Franklin called tohis aid the young New York gentleman who, althoughonly in his thirty-seventh }rear, had already achieved no-table success as a member of Congress and as the chief-justice of the supreme court of his native State. Born ofa Huguenot family, distinguished alike for social gracesand for legal attainments, Jay was at once easy of ap-proach, familiar with the usages of society, and strenuousin his Americanism. From his coming to Paris, late inJune, till the signing of the preliminary articles of peaceon the 30th of November, Jay pulled the labori
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