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1823 Feb. 11 Tripoli. H. to Q.A. ?.7. U.S
1823 Feb. 11 Tripoli. H. to Q.A. ?.7. U.S. Inducements

?.7. United States © their expected inducements for concurrence.

As to the ”inducements•, by which, on this occasion, the determination may be

given, to the course to be taken on the part of your Executive, in respect of

acceptance or rejection,© to have any thing like full knowledge of them, as well

as to give them any thing like their due weight, belongs, it is true to

yourselves alone: yet neither does it seem to me altogether impossible but that,

in this or that particular instance, it may happen to me to place this or that

consideration, in a point of view in which it might not otherwise have presented

itself. At any rate, any thing in this way may assist in preserving this

proposal from the imputation of being an altogether inconsiderate one,

destitute, upon the face of it, of all claim to attention, and of all chance of

obtaining its objects.

1. In the first place comes, ”Security against North African Piracy•. From no

other source could any thing like a perpetual and entire, or, in perpetuity, so

much as a partial, security for you, against this plague, be derived to you. To

day, the States in question, leave you, all of them, unmolested: but tomorrow

the molestation may, by any or all of them, be renewed. To day, you have

treaties with them: but tomorrow, those treaties may any or all of them, be

formally broken off, or violated. Under Governments such as our's in
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    1. In the first place comes ”Securityes against North African Piracy•. From no

    other source could any thing like a perpetual and entire an entire, or in

    perpetuity so much as a partial security for you against this plague be derived

    to you. To day the States in question leave you all of them unmolested, but

    tomorrow the molestation may by any or all of them be renewed. To day, you have

    treaties with them: but tomorrow those treaties may, any or all of them, be

    formally broken off or violated. Under governments such as ours, in a state of

    society and manners such as ours, the whole wisdom of years may at any time be

    set at nought, by the caprice or ungrounded passion of the moment passion Sir

    grounded on false information © or even destitute of all ground. Upon this topic

    I see no need of enlarging. Though on your minds, in your situation, the idea of

    this irritability with its consequences can not be so strongly impressed by

    observation from a distance as on ours it is by sad and continual experience, it

    is not without some assurance that I expect to find it sufficiently so for the

    purpose.

    True it is that on your part no such security can be compleat unless and untill

    the plan has been accomplished in regard to all the States in question: more

    particularly in regard to ”Algiers• that being beyond comparison the most

    formidable. But the plan, you see, embraces them all, and every thing must have

    its beginning. Neither were it to stop at Tripoli, would a perpetual security

    from the hostility of that State be at all times a matter of indifference to

    you. At any rate it was not in the year 1804
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    Description: 1823. Feb. 11 Tripoli. H. to Q.A. ?.7. U.S. Inducements

    in a state of society and manners such as our's, the whole wisdom of years may,

    at any time, be set at nought, by the caprice or ungrounded passion of the

    moment:© passion grounded on false imformation © or even destitute of all

    ground. Upon this topic I see no need of enlarging. Though, in your mind, in

    your situation, the idea of this irritability, with its consequences, can not be

    so strongly impressed by observation from a distance, as in our's it is by sad

    and continual experience, it is not without some assurance that I expect to find

    it sufficiently so, for the purpose.

    True it is, that, on your part, no such security can be complete, unless and

    until the plan has been accomplished in regard to ”all• the States in question:

    more particularly in regard to ”Algiers•, that being beyond comparison the most

    formidable. But the plan, you see, embraces them all: and every thing must have

    its beginning. Neither, were it to stop at Tripoli, would a perpetual security

    from the hostility of that State be at all times a matter of indifference to

    you. At any rate it was not, in the year 1804.

    It was but t'other day, and while some part of this letter was writing, that an

    article, speaking of a rupture of Algiers with Spain, appeared in the English

    papers. Whether that which is the lot of Spain one day, may not be your's

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    ?.7. United States © their expected inducements for concurrence.

    As to the inducements /considerations/ by which on this occasion, the

    determination may be given to the course taken on the part of Your Executive, in

    respect of acceptance or rejection, to have any thing like full knowledge of

    them, as well as to give them any thing like their due weight, belongs it is

    true to yourselves alone: yet neither does it seem to me altogether impossible

    but that in this or that particular instance it may happen to me to place this

    or that consideration in a point of view in which it might not otherwise have

    presented itself. At any rate, any thing in this way may assist in preserving

    this proposal from the imputation of being an altogether inconsiderate one,

    destitute upon the face of it of all claim to attention, and of all chance of

    obtaining its object.