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from Part II - Imperial Structures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2021
As President James Monroe’s secretary of state, John Quincy Adams spent most of 1819 elucidating all the ways in which US dealings with Spain over Florida proved America’s commitment “to observe toward Spain, and all other nations, a just and candid, and single-hearted course of conduct, free from fraud, artifice, or disguise.” Surprising both friends and critics, Adams defended General Andrew Jackson’s controversial 1818 invasion of Florida – and execution of two British subjects thought to be aiding Native Americans in the area – as a vindication of principles “written in every page of the law of nations, as well as in the first law of nature, self defense.”
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