Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
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Hammond, Edmund to Monsell, William 5 March 1870, CO 60:42, no. 2504, 171.
Abstract
Hammond, Edmund to Monsell, William 5 March 1870, CO 60:42, no. 2504, 171.
Public Offices document.
Minutes (4), Enclosures (untranscribed) (2).
Hammond to Under-Secretary of State
I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, to be
laid before Earl Granville, a copy of a Despatch from Her
Majesty's Minister at Washington, inclosing a printed Copy of a
Speech made in the United States Senate in April last by Mr
Howard with reference to the Convention for the Settlement of
the San Juan question which was signedby
by Lord Clarendon and Mr
Reverdy Johnson.
by Lord Clarendon and Mr
Reverdy Johnson.
Minutes by CO staff
There are about 20 lines of reasoning in this mighty mass of
small print.
Two passages wh I have marked A and B are amusingly American.
FR
9/3
Put by.
As far as a plain man can judge it wd seem that both parties
are agreed in rejecting the natural & grammatical—(but
highly capricious & inconvenient) construction of the
Treaty—and of course after abandoning the only position wh is
logically tenable they quarrel to all eternity about the
relative merits of those which are not.
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Edward Thornton, Washington, to Clarendon, 12 February 1870,
forwarding copy of a speech delivered in the U.S. Senate
respecting the San Juan Island question.
Newspaper extract,
Daily Globe, 9 February 1870, containing
"Speech of Hon. Jacob M. Howard, of Michigan, In
the Senate of the United States," 16 April 1869 (seven pages).