For Honour's Sake (65 page)

The several boards of two commissioners mentioned in the four preceding articles,
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shall respectively have power to appoint a secretary, and to employ such surveyors or other persons as they shall judge necessary. Duplicates of all their respective reports, declarations, statements and decisions, and of their accounts, and of the journal of their proceedings, shall be delivered by them to the agents of his Britannic majesty, and to the agents of the United States, who may be respectively appointed and authorized to manage the business on behalf of their respective governments. The said commissioners shall be respectively paid in such manner
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as shall be agreed between the two contracting parties, such agreement being to be settled at the time of the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty. And all other expenses attending the said commissions shall be defrayed equally by the two parties. And in the case of death, sickness, resignation, or necessary absence, the place of every such commissioner, respectively, shall be supplied in the same manner as such commissioner was first appointed, and the new commissioner shall take the same oath or affirmation, and do the same duties. It is further agreed between the two contracting parties, that in case any of the islands mentioned
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in any of the preceding articles, which were in the possession of one of the parties prior to the commencement of the present war between the two countries, should, by the decision of any of the boards of commissioners aforesaid, or of the sovereign or state so referred to, as in the four next preceding articles contained, fall within the dominions of the other party, all grants of land made previous to the commencement of the war, by the party having had such possession, shall be as valid as if such island or islands had, by such decision or decisions, been adjudged to be within the dominions of the party having had such possession.

The United States of America engage to put an end, immediately after the ratification of the present treaty,
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to hostilities with all the tribes or nations of Indians with whom they may be at war at the time of such ratification; and forthwith to restore to such tribes or nations, respectively, all the possessions, rights, and privileges, which they may have enjoyed or been entitled to in one thousand eight hundred and eleven, previous to such hostilities:
Provided always,
That such tribes or nations shall agree to desist from all hostilities, against the United States of America, their citizens and subjects, upon the ratification of the present treaty being notified to such tribes or nations, and shall so desist accordingly. And his Britannic majesty engages, on his part, to put an end immediately after the ratification of the present treaty, to hostilities with all the tribes or nations of Indians with whom he may be at war at the time of such ratification, and forthwith to restore to such tribes or nations, respectively, all the possessions, rights, and privileges, which they may have enjoyed or been entitled to, in one thousand eight hundred and eleven, previous to such hostilities:
Provided always,
That such tribes or nations shall agree to desist from all hostilities against his Britannic majesty, and his subjects, upon the ratification of the present treaty being notified to such tribes or nations, and shall so desist accordingly.

Whereas the traffic in slaves is irreconcileable with the principles of humanity and justice, and whereas both his Majesty and the United States are desirous of continuing their efforts to promote its entire abolition, it is hereby agreed that both the contracting parties shall use their best endeavors to accomplish so desirable an object.

This treaty, when the same shall have been ratified on both sides, without alteration by either of the contracting parties, and the ratifications mutually exchanged, shall be binding on both parties, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington, in the space of four months from this day, or sooner, if practicable.

1.
Charles William Vane, ed.,
Correspondence, Despatches and Other Papers of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquess of Londonderry
(London: John Murray, 1853), 67–68.

2.
State Papers, on the Negotiation and Peace with America, 1
8
14
(London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1815), 22–23.

1.
Bernard Mayo,
Henry Clay: Spokesman of the New West
(Boston: Archon Books, 1966), 403.

2.
Ibid., 150–51.

3.
Robert V. Remini,
Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union
(New York: W.W. Norton, 1991), 158–68.

4.
Mayo, 40–42.

5.
James F. Hopkins, ed.,
The Papers of Henry Clay: Volume 1—The Rising Statesman, 1797–1
8
14
(Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1959), 256.

6.
Ibid., 498.

7.
Mayo, 270–71.

8.
Elizabeth Donnan, ed., “Papers of James A. Bayard, 1796–1815,”
Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1913.
1915: 6.

9.
Ibid., 6–7.

10.
Ibid., 110–11.

11.
Mayo, 275.

12.
Epes Sargent,
The Life and Public Services of Henry Clay, Down to 1848,
ed. Horace Greeley (Philadelphia: Portland Coates, 1852), 29.

13.
Hopkins, 396–97.

14.
Mayo, 340.

15.
Robert Allen Rutland,
The Presidency of James Madison
(Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1990), 10.

16.
Ibid.

17.
Raymond Walters, Jr.,
Albert Gallatin: Jeffersonian Financier and Diplomat
(New York: Macmillan, 1957), 198.

18.
Ibid., 200–201.

19.
James Fulton Zimmerman,
Impressment of American Seamen
(Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1966), 157.

20.
Bradford Perkins,
Prologue to War: England and the United States, 1
8
05–1
8
12
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961), 26–27.

21.
Ibid., 27.

22.
Mayo, 228.

23.
Perkins, 55–57.

24.
Ibid., 53.

25.
Ibid., 54.

26.
Ibid., 29.

27.
Walters, 146.

28.
Perkins, 71.

1.
James F. Hopkins, ed.,
The Papers of Henry Clay: Volume 1—The Rising Statesman, 1797–1814
(Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1959), 449.

2.
Michael Lewis,
A Social History of the Navy, 1793–1
8
15
(London: George Allen & Unwin, 1960), 98–104.

3.
James Fulton Zimmerman,
Impressment of American Seamen
(Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1966), 13–15.

4.
Lewis, 128.

5.
Ibid., 434–35.

6.
Zimmerman, 30.

7.
Hopkins, 449.

8.
A. T. Mahan,
Sea Power in its Relation to the War of 1
8
12,
vol. 1 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1905), 155.

9.
Pierre Berton,
The Invasion of Canada: 1
8
12–1
8
13
(Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1980), 35.

10.
Henry Adams, “The Chesapeake and the Orders-in-Council of November 1807,” in
The Causes of the War of
1812
: National Honor or National Interest?
ed. Bradford Perkins (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962), 23.

11.
Berton, 35.

12.
Bradford Perkins,
Prologue to War: England and the United States, 1
8
05–1
8
12
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961), 140–41.

13.
Adams, 23–24.

14.
J. Mackay Hitsman,
The Incredible War of 1
8
12: A Military History
(Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 1999), 16.

15.
Perkins, 140.

16.
Adams, 24.

17.
Ibid., 25.

18.
Ibid.

19.
Ibid., 26–27.

20.
Mahan, 156.

1.
Bradford Perkins,
Prologue to War: England and the United States, 1805–1812
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961), 142–43.

2.
Robert Allen Rutland,
The Presidency of James Madison
(Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1990), 8–18.

3.
Ibid.

4.
Ibid.

5.
Patrick C. T. White,
A Nation on Trial: America and the War of 1812
(New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1965), 41.

6.
Perkins, 144.

7.
White, 41.

8.
Frank A. Updyke,
The Diplomacy of the War of 1812
(Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1965), 43–44.

9.
John Austen Stevens,
Albert Gallatin
(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1972), 10.

10.
Raymond Walters, Jr.,
Albert Gallatin: Jeffersonian Financier and Diplomat
(New York: Macmillan, 1957), 53–54.

11.
Ibid., 195.

12.
Henry Adams, ed.,
The Writings of Albert Gallatin
(New York: Antiquarian Press, 1960), 339.

13.
Stevens, 289.

14.
Adams, 345–52.

15.
Perkins, 145.

16.
A. T. Mahan,
Sea Power in its Relation to the War of 1812,
vol. 1 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1905), 164.

17.
Ibid., 161.

18.
Adams, 338.

19.
Perkins, 145–46.

20.
Updyke, 44.

21.
Ibid., 45.

22.
James Fulton Zimmerman,
Impressment of American Seamen
(Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1966), 137.

23.
Updyke, 47.

1.
Louis M. Hacker, “The Desire for Canadian Land,” in
The Causes of the War of 1812: National Honor or National Interest?
ed. Bradford Perkins (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962), 46–47.

2.
R. David Edmunds,
Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership
(Toronto: Little, Brown, 1984), 17–29.

3.
John Sugden,
Tecumseh: A Life
(New York: Henry Holt, 1997), 6–22.

4.
Benjamin Drake,
Life of Tecumseh
(Cincinnati: n.p., 1841), n.p.

5.
Mary Beacock Fryer and Christopher Dracott,
John Graves Simcoe, 1752–1806: A Biography
(Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1998), 169.

6.
J. Mackay Hitsman,
The Incredible War of 1812: A Military History
(Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 1999), 11.

7.
Fryer and Dracott, 169–70.

8.
Sugden, 87–90.

9.
Fryer and Dracott, 174.

10.
Sugden, 90.

11.
Ibid., 91–92.

12.
Ibid., 106–7.

13.
Michael Kraus,
The United States to 1865
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1959), 301.

14.
Paul Johnson,
A History of the American People
(London: Phoenix Giant, 1998), 257.