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THE

TREATY OF WASHINGTON.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION.

THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON, Whether it be regard ed in the light of its general spirit and object, of its particular stipulations, or of its relation to the high contracting parties, constitutes one of the most nota ble and interesting of all the great diplomatic acts of the present age.

It disposes, in forty-three articles, of five different subjects of controversy between Great Britain and the United States, two of them European or imperial, three American or colonial, and some of them of such nature as most imminently to imperil the precious peace of the two great English-speaking nations.

Indeed, several of these objects of controversy are questions coeval with the national existence of the United States, and which, if lost sight of occasionally in the midst of other pre-occupations of peace or war, yet continually came to the surface again from time

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