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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV THE CONVENTION OF PEACE, COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION WITH FRANCE, 1800 Nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation. FnTH Amendment. Thomas Jefferson negotiated with France the first treaty to be approved by the United States Senate. This was the Consular Convention of 1788. The certificate of the exchange of ratifications bore the date of January 1, 1790. Jefferson occupied by the latter date the position of Secretary of State. Before the end of that year, December 8,1790, Washington cautioned Congress about the disturbed situation in Europe. Gouverneur Morris became the American minister in Paris. He grew so charmed with the royal court that he even assisted Louis XVI. in his attempted flight. Upon the execution of the King the revolution assumed a European aspect, France declaring war upon Great Britain, February 9,1793. Americans felt an almost universal sentiment of gratitude to France for assistance rendered; and they were decidedly biased in favor of the republican movement. A liberal fulfillment of the treaty obligations to France would have drawn the United States into the war. In the cabinet meetings Jefferson espoused the cause of the French sympathizers and Hamilton led the opposition in favor of American rights. On the question of whether the change in the government of France had terminated the treaties, Washington decided that they were binding and that he would recognize the new republic by receiving its envoy, Citizen GenSt, then on the way. On the question of the eleventh article of the Treaty of Alliance, 1778, by which the United States guaranteed to His Most Christian Majesty against all other powers the French possessions in America, Washington decided that among nations the law of self-preservation is par...
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