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GALLATIN TO J. Q. ADAMS. - Albert Gallatin, The Writings of Albert Gallatin, vol. 2 [1879]

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The Writings of Albert Gallatin, ed. Henry Adams (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1879). 3 vols.

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GALLATIN TO J. Q. ADAMS.

No. 163.

Sir,

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Mr. Hyde de Neuville has been appointed ambassador to Brazil, but, in conformity with the official communication made to me, goes in the first place to the United States, for the purpose of concluding, if practicable, an arrangement with you on all the commercial difficulties existing between the two countries. Although that gentleman’s opinions with respect to the construction of the Louisiana Treaty and to the subject of discriminating duties essentially differ from ours, I believe that he continues to have the same friendly dispositions towards the United States which he has always evinced.

From conversations with him and with the Duke of Richelieu, I am induced to believe that this government refused to separate in the negotiation the question relative to the Louisiana Treaty from that of discriminating duties, less with a view to insist on their construction of the treaty than from the hope that the United States would make concessions in some other respect, in order to obtain from France a relinquishment of her pretensions under the article in question.