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JEFFERSON, Thomas. Autograph letter signed ("Th:Jefferson") as Secretary of State, to Thomas Pinckney (1750-1828), Minister to Great Britain; Philadelphia, 12 July 1792. 1 page, 4to, shaved along left-hand edge, just catching the first letter in each line of text, otherwise in good condition.
JEFFERSON, WEARIED BY NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE BRITISH MINISTER, PREPARES TO RETURN TO MONTICELLO
The first Session of the Second Congress had ended just over a month prior to this date; just before returning to Monticello between sessions, Jefferson apprises Pinckney, Minister to the Court of St. James, of important aspects of Anglo-British relations, particulary the troublesome question of British outposts on the northern frontier and Indian affairs. "The President set out yesterday for Virginia, and I shall follow him tomorrow, and shall not return here till the last of September, consequently shall not again write to you before that date. Nothing interesting has occurred since your departure, except some attempts on the part of the state of Vermont to extend their jurisdiction a little closer to the British forts than has hitherto been done. We have received a complaint from Mr Hammond on the subject and shall endeavor to keep matters quiet till we see whether there is any hope of their doing us justice voluntarily--I think we shall have no campaign against the Indians this year. There is some ground of expectations that they will accept of peace, as we ask nothing in return for it. The public papers will be sent you from my office regularly during my absence. I leave this with Mr Taylor, not knowing how or when it will be sent."
Jefferson had devoted much of the last six months dealing with British Minister George Hammond, endeavoring to conclude a treaty on unresolved issues from the Revolutionary War. Hammond was under instructions that he could not surrender the British forts in the Old Northwest and along the St. Lawrence unless the Americans conceded on key issues relating to the adjudication of unpaid debts and confiscated Loyalist property. The subject had heightened friction between Jefferson and Hamilton. Jefferson recommended commercial retaliation against Britain; Hamilton, however, contended that this would endanger the negotiation over the Western forts. Jefferson suspected that Hamilton, to win his point, had actually leaked American policy discussions to the British minister (on this, the delicate negotiations, and Jefferson's lengthy response to Hammond, see Peterson, Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation, pp.451-455). Jefferson would leave the Secretaryship without having resolved these complex differences.
JEFFERSON, WEARIED BY NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE BRITISH MINISTER, PREPARES TO RETURN TO MONTICELLO
The first Session of the Second Congress had ended just over a month prior to this date; just before returning to Monticello between sessions, Jefferson apprises Pinckney, Minister to the Court of St. James, of important aspects of Anglo-British relations, particulary the troublesome question of British outposts on the northern frontier and Indian affairs. "The President set out yesterday for Virginia, and I shall follow him tomorrow, and shall not return here till the last of September, consequently shall not again write to you before that date. Nothing interesting has occurred since your departure, except some attempts on the part of the state of Vermont to extend their jurisdiction a little closer to the British forts than has hitherto been done. We have received a complaint from Mr Hammond on the subject and shall endeavor to keep matters quiet till we see whether there is any hope of their doing us justice voluntarily--I think we shall have no campaign against the Indians this year. There is some ground of expectations that they will accept of peace, as we ask nothing in return for it. The public papers will be sent you from my office regularly during my absence. I leave this with Mr Taylor, not knowing how or when it will be sent."
Jefferson had devoted much of the last six months dealing with British Minister George Hammond, endeavoring to conclude a treaty on unresolved issues from the Revolutionary War. Hammond was under instructions that he could not surrender the British forts in the Old Northwest and along the St. Lawrence unless the Americans conceded on key issues relating to the adjudication of unpaid debts and confiscated Loyalist property. The subject had heightened friction between Jefferson and Hamilton. Jefferson recommended commercial retaliation against Britain; Hamilton, however, contended that this would endanger the negotiation over the Western forts. Jefferson suspected that Hamilton, to win his point, had actually leaked American policy discussions to the British minister (on this, the delicate negotiations, and Jefferson's lengthy response to Hammond, see Peterson, Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation, pp.451-455). Jefferson would leave the Secretaryship without having resolved these complex differences.
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