1John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 October 1797 (Adams Papers)
Harper’s Observations upon the dispute between the United States and France are very valuable, and must I think prove very useful.Observations on the Dispute Between the United States and France … in May, 1797
2William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 21 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
on a bill in Congress that would further suspend relations between the United States and France (
3Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 February 1798 (Adams Papers)
Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War between the United States and France
4John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 25 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
that the commissioners had “no prospect of success” in their mission. Gerry also offered the opinion that a war between the United States and France would lead to disaster for both sides (King to ...suspend all commercial intercourse between the United States and France was not taken up and said that the Anglo-American party would never succeed in sparking a war between the two countries....
5Richard Cranch to Abigail Adams, 10 November 1800 (Adams Papers)
...April and September, culminating in the Convention of 1800. Negotiations were slowed by contention over the Jay Treaty and the 7 July 1798 act voiding all prior treaties between the United States and France. Officially dated 30 Sept. 1800 but signed on 1 and 3 Oct., the convention contained 27 articles that reaffirmed the “inviolable, and universal peace, and a true and sincere...
6Jeremy Belknap to Abigail Adams, 14 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
Observations on the Dispute between the United States and France
7IV. John Adams to Charles Adams, 13 February 1794 (Adams Papers)
By the first Article of the Treaty of Commerce between the United States and France it is Stipulated that
8To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 20 November 1799 (Adams Papers)
...thro’ the minister resident of the United States at the Hague, manifestations of a desire on the part of the French Republic, to adjust the differences between the United States and France, and that a minister from the former would be duly received: it seemed to be proper further to evince the pacific disposition of the United States: and therefore I nominated Envoys to the French Republic...
9Proc. Open. Trade W/ Cert. Pts. Of St. Domingo, 26 June 1799 (Adams Papers)
..., by an act of the Congress of the United States, passed the 9th day of February last, entitled “An act further to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof,” it is provided, that at any time after the passing of this act, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, if he shall deem it expedient and consistent...
10To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 26 November 1798 (Adams Papers)
The course of the transactions between the United States and France which have come to my knowledge during your recess, will be seen in a communication which by my direction, will be laid before you, from the Department of State. This will confirm to you the ultimate failure of...
11To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 21 April 1797 (Adams Papers)
Answer—The provisions of the Commercial Treaty between the United States and France are for the most part unexceptionable, or at least as favorable as can be expected to be obtainable in a Treaty to be negociated at this time;—it will therefore be sufficient for the United States to manifest a...
12Proc. Opening Trade With St. Domingo, 9 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
Whereas, by an act of Congress of the United States, passed the 27th day of February last, entitled “An act further to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France and the dependencies thereof,” it is enacted, That, any time after the passing of the said act, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, by his order, to remit and discontinue for...
13To John Adams from James McHenry, 29 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
That in pursuance of the 4th Section of “an act further to suspend, the Commercial intercourse, between the United States and France and the dependencies thereof.” The President of the United States, having deemed it expedient and consistent with the interest of the United States to remit and discontinue the restraints and prohibitions provided by the said act, with respect...
14John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 25 November 1800 (Adams Papers)
...American shipowners against losses, but they relented on that demand when it became clear that it put the entire negotiation at risk. The convention as negotiated included limited language on the subject, with Art. 2 stating that the United States and France would revisit the issue “at a convenient time,” for which see
15To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 6 June 1796 (Adams Papers)
...not yet appeared. He has only published a piece upon the English finances, which I sent you from London, and which in his own opinion amply revenges all the injuries and insults which the United States and France have received from Great Britain for the last four years.—What the present views of the American Representation in France are, I am unable to say but the final object of the french...
16To John Adams from James McHenry, 20 October 1797 (Adams Papers)
...conduct that nation has observed towards the United States may indeed entertain apprehensions of being forced into a war with the United States, in the event of a war taking place between the United States and France: but is there solid ground for the opinion that she will volunteer such a war in the present conjuncture and under the present state of their colonial possessions in America...
17Instructions Respecting a Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the Netherlands, 29 December 1780 (Adams Papers)
between these United States and France, and being particularly attentive to the ninth, tenth and seventeenth articles of our treaty of Amity and Commerce with France numbered as they were finally ratified.
18To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 9 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
...United States, for the President to remit and discontinue the restraints and prohibitions of that intercourse, imposed by the act of Congress passed in its present session, entitled “An Act further to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof.”
19To John Adams from Benjamin Stoddert, 24 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
In pursuance of the powers vested in me by the Act further to suspend Commercial intercourse between the United States and France & her dependencies, I have caused arrangements to be made with the Governing power of the North side of the Island of St. Domingo, for a renewal of intercourse with that part of the Island, on conditions meant...
20To John Adams from Willis Foreman, 29 November 1798 (Adams Papers)
We never believed that the cause of the threatned rupter between the United States and France had been produced by any injustice in the forener. It must alone have flowed from an Intoxicated attitude which conquest had given the latter. This no doubt had produced a belief that we was too insignificant to hesitate in...
21To John Adams from Charles Lee, 1 November 1798 (Adams Papers)
a law was necessary and proper; and if it had been omitted under the circumstances of the United States and france it might have been deemed a neglect of duty.
22To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 26 August 1797 (Adams Papers)
...may be concluded that they are acting without explicit orders from Spain. This proclamation, I think, clearly shows that their measures have been taken on an expected war between the United States and France, grounded on information from the Chevalier de Yrujo, and the American news-papers. This proclamation farther confirms (tho’ confirmation was not wanted) the obvious opinion, that all...
23Thomas Boylston Adams to John Adams, 9 January 1801 (Adams Papers)
, Book II, ch. 17, sects. 283, 314. Art. 6 of the convention granted the United States and France most favored nation status, while Art. 25 of the Jay Treaty specified that neither the United States nor Great Britain would make treaties with other nations that would affect Anglo-American commercial relations. Although there was informal discussion...
24To John Adams from James Lovell, 16 November 1779 (Adams Papers)
Incorrect in the sense that Arts. 11 and 12, which the United States and France had agreed to remove from the treaty, had been eliminated from the text of the treaty then in use in America. Thus, Lovell is referring to Art. 17 of the treaty as ratified (and to Art. 11...
25Jean Henri David Uhl to John Adams: A Translation, 1 July 1782 (Adams Papers)
...ch. 7, § 115–116). Thus when a British warship or privateer found Prussian merchandise on a Dutch ship, that property would be counted free and returned to the owner. The United States and France followed the alternative principle that free ships made free goods, which provided that all, even neutral, property was subject to seizure on an enemy ship and that all, even enemy, property was...
26John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 15 June 1784 (Adams Papers)
as U.S. minister at The Hague. While in this post, Murray played a crucial role in promoting peace between the United States and France, following the XYZ Affair and the quasi war of 1799–1800. See
27Sartine to the Commissioners: A Translation, 16 August 1778 (Adams Papers)
The translator’s “U States” is clearly a misreading of “Etats respectifs,” that is, the United States and France.
28Dumas to the American Commissioners, 24 July 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
The two articles of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce that the United States and France had agreed to drop.
29John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 5 December 1796 (Adams Papers)
...from their neutral system of policy, or engage in War with any European Power whatever.” His next letter, of 24 Dec., again emphasized the concerns over the presidential elections as well as the growing tensions between the United States and France in the wake of the Jay Treaty and Pierre Auguste Adet’s resignation.
30Abigail Adams 2d to John Quincy Adams, 26 August 1785 (Adams Papers)
expressed her views with less reservation, and compared both the United States and France favorably to England in several respects. Her opinions there are quite similar to those of