The Philippine Case An Address Delivered Before the Twentieth Century Club of B
The Philippine Case An Address Delivered Before the Twentieth Century Club of B
Henry Winthrop Hardon
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Ipse of the war the Spanish troops held various posts in what Avas then the colony of Georgia, and is now t:h>e state. Of Alabama, and though requested by the United States to withdraw his troops the Spanish king refused to do so, insisting that he had acquired title by force of arms in his war against England to the places he held, and that he was entitled to retain them by right of conquest — a contention which the United States earnestly resisted. The dispute between the United States and Sp...ain re- mained unsettled for some years after the close of the Revolution, and finally, in 1702, the United States deter- mined to send envoys to negotiate directly with the Spanish Court for a withdrawal of the Spanish troops. Washington was then President and Jefferson Secretary of State. The instructions to the American envoys pre- pared by Jefferson contained, among other things, the following statement of the rights of the United States: Spain, he said, was bound to deliver the posts in Georgia to the United States as the successor to the title of Great Britain, but she was also bound to do so by the law of nations "on a much stronger ground, as [the United States were] the real and only proprietors of those places which she [Spain] had taken possession of in a moment of danger without having had any cause of war with the United States, and without having declared any; but on the contrary conducting herself in other respects as a friend and associate (Vattel, lib.
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