. 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 DISPUTE. 39 Treaty of 1783, not being re-enacted or confirmed by the Treaty of Ghent, was annulled by the War of 1812. They insisted that the treaty, after a seven years* contest, made two empires out of one ; that the entire instrument implied permanence—the use of the word right in one place and libe
. 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 DISPUTE. 39 Treaty of 1783, not being re-enacted or confirmed by the Treaty of Ghent, was annulled by the War of 1812. They insisted that the treaty, after a seven years* contest, made two empires out of one ; that the entire instrument implied permanence—the use of the word right in one place and liberty in another could make no difference ; that a right of unlimited duration secured by so solemn a deed was as much a right as if stipulated by any other term. Liberty might have seemed "a more appropriate term where an en- joyment was guaranteed to one party of a thing adjoinmg territory allotted to the other, but it took nothing from the permanency of the allotment. In point of principle the United States was pre-eminently entitled to all the fisheries, and the restriction at the close of the article stamped per- manence upon it. The Treaty of 1783 was altogether unlike common treaties. It contemplated a permanent di- vision of coequal rights, not a transient grant of mere priv- ileges ; the acknowledgment of independence, the estab- lishment of boundaries, and the guarantee of the fisheries each rested upon the same illimitable basis. According to Mr. Rush neither side yielded its conviction to the rea- soning of the other, and this being exhausted, there was no resource left with nations disposed to peace but a compro- mise, and the result was the first article of the Treaty of 181^, under which have arisen the troubles which we have made such fruitless efforts to escape. The Fisheries Convention of 1818. Whereas^ Differences have arisen respec'ng the liberty claimed by the United States for the inhabitants thereof to take, dry, and cure fish on certain coastsj bay
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