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tion which he had so peremptorily rejected, but which 

 Mr. Seward persisted in asserting as wise in itself and 

 honorable to both Governments. 



Those negotiations failed. But the rejection by 

 the Senate of the Clarendon- Johnson Treaty, with 

 Mr. Sumner s commentary thereon, if it had the ap 

 parent effect, at first, of widening the breach between 

 the two countries by the irritation it produced in En 

 gland, yet ultimately had the opposite effect by fore- 

 \ ing on public attention there a more general and 

 V clearer perception of the wrong which had been done 

 x to the United States. 



POLICY OF PRESIDENT GHANT. 



At this stage of the question, President Grant came 

 into ofiice ; and he and his advisers seem to have well 

 judged that it sufficed for him, after giving expres 

 sion fully and distinctly to his own view of the 

 questions at issue, there to pause and wait for the 

 tranquillization of opinion in England, and the prob 

 able initiation of new negotiations by the British 

 Government. 



It happened as the President anticipated, and with 

 attendant circumstances of peculiar interest to the 

 United States. 



During the late war between Germany and France, 

 the condition of Europe was such as to induce the 

 British Ministers to take into consideration the for 

 eign relations of Great Britain ; and, as Lord Gran- 

 ville, the British Minister of Foreign Affairs, has him 

 self stated in the House of Lords, they saw cause to 



