Foreign Affairs
Proclamation of Neutrality
April 1793 - The Washington Administration
The outbreak of the French revolution coincided with the beginning of George Washington's first administration, but by 1793, warfare had engulfed Europe, pitting England, Prussia, Austria, and Spain against the new French Republic. In the cabinet Thomas Jefferson opposed any expression of neutrality while Alexander Hamilton supported it. Washington eventually sided with the latter and issued a proclamation of neutrality that barred American ships from supplying war matériel to either side.
See neutral rights.
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Although both Hamilton and Jefferson favored a neutral position, Hamilton sided with Britain and Jefferson with France. And James Madison questioned the president's authority to issue the proclamation without congressional approval ...
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/procneutral/
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The Proclamation of Neutrality April 22, 1793 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES A PROCLAMATION Whereas it appears that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great BProclamation of Neutrality April 22, 1793 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES A PROCLAMATION Whereas it appears that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, and the United ...
http://theamericanrevolution.org/hdocs/procofneutrality.asp
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... manner to engage the attention of every man of learning, to matters of power and of right, that we may be neither led nor driven blindfolded to irretrievable destruction. Nothing less than this seems to have been meditated for us, by somebody ...
http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/hdocs/JohnAdams/CanFeudLaw.asp
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