MONROE, JAMES, 1758-1831, President . Autograph letter signed ("Jas Monroe") as Secretary of State and Secretary of War, to Charles Everett (a Virginia friend), Washington, D.C., 18 February 1815. 1 page, 4to, 250 x 198mm. (9 7/8 x 7 3/4 in.), integral address leaf in Monroe's hand, lightly browned, small tear at fold, paper brittle . SECRETARY OF STATE MONROE ANNOUNCES THE END OF THE WAR OF 1812: "A TREATY OF PEACE WAS RECEIVED LAST NIGHT" Secretary Monroe reports the momentous news that the destructive and inconclusive War of 1812 has been concluded, and extols Jackson's victory at New Orleans: "I have the pleasure to inform you that a treaty of peace was received last night by Mr Carroll from Ghent, which was signed...It is perfectly honorable to the UStates. It is short, & little more than a treaty of peace . No...concession is made on any point. It is highly honorable to our country to have maintained its ground...& to have forced [Great Britain] to such a peace. The contest has been glorious to the UStates, by sea, and land, & its [victory]...at New Orleans gives it[s] men a spendour which will make the epoch memeorable in our history. On other matters I will write you hereafter. This, puts an end to all difficulties, tho' I had no fear of our being able to surmount them..." In December 1814, five U.S. diplomats (John Quincy Adams, James A. Bayard, Henry Clay, Albert Gallatin and Jonathan Russell) negotiated the Treaty of Ghent which ended the War of 1812 at the status quo ante bellum with both sides retaining territory held prior to the war; all other issues were left unsettled (although Britain's practice of impressment ceased). Monroe,in his address to a Senate Committee the same month, proclaimed that in the war "our Union has gained strength, our troops honor, and the nation character..." (H. Ammon, James Monroe: The Quest for Natoinal Identity , 1990, p.344).
MONROE, JAMES, 1758-1831, President . Autograph letter signed ("Jas Monroe") as Secretary of State and Secretary of War, to Charles Everett (a Virginia friend), Washington, D.C., 18 February 1815. 1 page, 4to, 250 x 198mm. (9 7/8 x 7 3/4 in.), integral address leaf in Monroe's hand, lightly browned, small tear at fold, paper brittle . SECRETARY OF STATE MONROE ANNOUNCES THE END OF THE WAR OF 1812: "A TREATY OF PEACE WAS RECEIVED LAST NIGHT" Secretary Monroe reports the momentous news that the destructive and inconclusive War of 1812 has been concluded, and extols Jackson's victory at New Orleans: "I have the pleasure to inform you that a treaty of peace was received last night by Mr Carroll from Ghent, which was signed...It is perfectly honorable to the UStates. It is short, & little more than a treaty of peace . No...concession is made on any point. It is highly honorable to our country to have maintained its ground...& to have forced [Great Britain] to such a peace. The contest has been glorious to the UStates, by sea, and land, & its [victory]...at New Orleans gives it[s] men a spendour which will make the epoch memeorable in our history. On other matters I will write you hereafter. This, puts an end to all difficulties, tho' I had no fear of our being able to surmount them..." In December 1814, five U.S. diplomats (John Quincy Adams, James A. Bayard, Henry Clay, Albert Gallatin and Jonathan Russell) negotiated the Treaty of Ghent which ended the War of 1812 at the status quo ante bellum with both sides retaining territory held prior to the war; all other issues were left unsettled (although Britain's practice of impressment ceased). Monroe,in his address to a Senate Committee the same month, proclaimed that in the war "our Union has gained strength, our troops honor, and the nation character..." (H. Ammon, James Monroe: The Quest for Natoinal Identity , 1990, p.344).
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