The Life of the Late Gen William Eaton

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: like members of the same great family, study a general good, even at the expense of individual interest. True, said he, but this will never be the cas, so long as there are great and small among men. T have, however, no intention of a war with the United States; if so I should not have permitted their colors to be hoisted, although I might have found occasion in the failure of your government to forward the regalia.'1 We asked him if any inducement would prevail on him to make the alterations we demanded in the treaty. He answered, No: I will agree to any thing you please, which shall Iie reciprocal; but I tell you as you have told me, you may as well abandon your terms. He then proposed the following substitute in substance. The citizens and inhabitants of the United States of America, shall have liberty to enter all the ports of the kingdom of Tunis, and freely trade, Od paying a duty which shall countervail the duty paid by Tunisian merchants, in the ports of the linked States, allowing nine months for obtaining the proper information; mean time, the Americans shall pay three per cent only, in the Tunissian ports. In like manner, the subjects and inhabitants of the kingdom of Tunis shall have free commerce in all the ports of the United States, on paying the duty usually paid by the most favored nation. Send this, said he. to your government; if they do not like it, they may send it back. We returned to the eleventh article, went over the ground of yesterday; insisted on a mutual salute, we paying the expense of the salute in his ports, he in ours: rejected. We told him, if he calculated on making a speculation by this article, he was in an error; he would not get a cartridge by it in an hundred years: no American Consul will ever demand a. sa...