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by the State court. In October the accused 

 man was duly acquitted by a jury, and was 

 hastily sent out of the State. 



The period of McLeod s detention was one 

 of great bitterness of feeling among all three of 

 the English-speaking peoples. While exciting 

 conditions of internal politics served to temper 

 somewhat the prevailing international antip 

 athies, there was little doubt that the gravest 

 results would have followed the conviction and 

 punishment of the man. The Canadian revolt 

 was indeed only one of several matters that 

 combined to produce the tension of the time. 

 While the two Canadas were in the throes of 

 civil war New Brunswick was on the verge of 

 hostilities with the State of Maine over the old 

 question of the disputed northeastern boundary. 

 On the Gulf of Mexico Texas was fighting for 

 independence from Mexico, and was receiving 

 from sympathizers in the United States an 

 amount and kind of assistance that had not been 

 without effect on the expectations of the in 

 surgent Canadians. Finally, on the far-distant 

 Pacific coast the late thirties saw the beginning 

 of an immigration from the United States into 

 the valley of the Columbia River that foretold 

 trouble over the Oregon country. The Amer- 



