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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 29: (search)
tish of the free navigation of the Mississippi. For himself, he re- Chap. XXIX.} 1782. Sept. peatedly insisted with Oswald, that West Florida should not be left in the hands of the Spaniards, but should be restored to England; and he pleaded in favor of the future commerce of England as if he had been of her council, and wished to make some reparation for her loss, not duly considering the dangers threatening the United States, if England should hold both East and West Florida and the Bahama Islands. Shelburne had hoped to make a distinction between the jurisdiction over the western country and property in its ungranted domain, so that the sales of wild lands might yield some compensation to the loyal refugees; but Jay insisted that no such right of property remained to the king. Oswald urged upon him the restoration of the loyalists to their civil rights; but Jay answered that the subject of pardon was one with which congress could not meddle. The states being sovereigns, the