H2 THE ROARING FORTIES 



that on the part of the British-Americans, 

 who were debarred by the Webster-Ashburton 

 boundary from the most direct and practicable 

 line of communication between Halifax and 

 Quebec. They long continued to feel that their 

 interests and plain rights had been sacrificed 

 to the mother-country s exaggerated fear of a 

 breach with the United States. 



The provisions of the treaty touching the 

 slave-trade avoided all reference to the right 

 of search. It was agreed that each govern 

 ment should maintain on the coast of Africa 

 a considerable naval force to apply its own laws 

 against the trade. The two forces were to 

 work in co-operation with each other for the 

 common end, under orders from their respect 

 ive governments adapted to make this co-opera 

 tion most effective. 



This article was the best that could be de 

 vised to end the dangerous controversies that 

 arose from time to time over the activities of 

 the British cruisers on the African coast. It 

 insured a more positive and definite participa 

 tion by the United States in the suppression of 

 the slave-trade, and at the same time, by pro 

 viding for the presence of an American squad 

 ron in the most troublesome neighborhood, gave 



