WHO has not heard of the triumphant result of the 

 negotiations at Ghent ? Who does not know that the 

 glory of the triumph is claimed by John Quincy Adams ? 

 He is the intellectual giant who prostrated with ease 

 the sophistry, and the arguments ; the arts, schemes and 

 stratagems of a superannuated Admiral and two mere 

 diplomatic machines. 



It may be questioned whether a resistance to the 

 British claim for making the Penobscot an eastern boun 

 dary, surrendering Louisiana, an absolute exclusion 

 from the lakes, and precluding ourselves from the exer 

 cise of all authority or influence over the Indians with 

 in our own limits, can be considered as absolute evidence 

 of superior diplomatic skill and intellectual power. 

 Great Britain never expected from us an acquiescence 

 in such monstrous demands, and one would think that 

 an ordinary mind might have commanded sufficient ar 

 guments to refute such pretensions when urged on the 

 ground of right. 



Did the Commissioners of America succeed in securing 

 a treaty stipulation, respecting the imprisonment of 

 seamen, and the belligerent right to blockade, which, 

 together with the celebrated orders in council, were the 

 only alleged causes of the war? None will pretend 

 that they did : then it would seem that the whole 

 skill of the Commissioners was exerted to save that 

 which was unquestionably ours before the commence- 



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