Jay's Treaty
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"If this country is preserved in tranquillity twenty years longer, it
may bid defiance in a just cause to any power whatever; such in that time will
be its popularity, wealth and resources," stated by George Washington in
response to demonstrators over the Jay Treaty. 1 Washington's remark was
rega ....
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.... again his
great moral coura ge for the welfare of his country.
Although Washington himself did not write the treaty he deserves all the
credit for initiating it in the first place. The times had become rough with
the British, and according to Hamilton the British were a vital part of our
economy. He said " …the tax on imports furnished much of the money for paying
off our foreign, domestic, and state debts." 2 Along with the British's
impressment of American seamen and their role in our ....
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