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