IS THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



tion wLicli he Lad so peremptorily rejected, but which 

 Mr. Sewiird persisted in asserting as wise in itself and 

 honorable to both Governments. 



Those negotiations fiiiled. But the rejection by 

 the Senate of the Clarendon -Johnson Treaty, with 

 Mr. Sumner's commentary thereon, if it had the ajD- 

 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 forc- 

 ing on 2^ublic attention there a more general and 

 clearer perception of the wrong which had been done 

 to the United States. 



POLICY OF PRESIDENT GRANT. 



At this stage of the question, President Grant came 

 into office ; 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 j^eculiar interest to the 

 United States. -% 



During the late war between Germany and France, 

 the condition of Eurojie was such as ta 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 



