Autograph Letter Signed

House of Representatives' battle against the Jay Treaty

McHenry comments on the House of Representatives' effort to block the Jay Treaty from being implemented by withholding funding. McHenry writes that unless Congress funds the implementations of the Jay Treaty, the British will retain the posts they agreed to withdraw from, and that as a consequence for blocking the treaty, Congressmen will have their pay withheld.

1796

04

07

Philadelphia

Baltimore

Robert Oliver

James McHenry

House of Representatives

President

George Washington

politicians

Democratic-Republicans

Baltimore

Philadelphia

western forts

pamphlet

newspaper

treaty

appropriations

money

posts

compensation

Political

Jay Treaty

funding

Democratic-Republicanism

The fate of the country is of course in the hands of the House of Representatives.

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War Office
James McHenry
Robert Oliver, esq.

mrcht.
Baltimore

1796
J McHenry
Philadelphia 7 April 1796

Dear Sir,
I inclose you a political pamphlet
which I have not read, and which, if you are busy
it is not very likely you will. It is said to be good,
and I can say nothing to the contrary.
The house of representatives as you
will see by the enclosed news-paper, have resolved,
that they were right, in calling for the papers
respecting the treaty, and, that the President was
wrong in refusing them. Which do you and the
people of Baltimore think in the right?
Government have been informed
that unless the appropriations of money are voted, as
required by the treaty, that the posts will not be
given up; and, if the posts are retained, the probability
is, that compensation for spoliations will be
with held also. The fate of the country is of course
in the hands of the house of representatives.
With sincere friendship I am
yours James McHenry
Robert Oliver, esq