THE 
TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
" CHAPTER I. 
INTRODUCTION. 
Tue Treaty or Wasuineton, whether it be regard- 
ed in the light of its general spirit and object, of its 
particular stipulations, or of its relation to the high 
contracting parties, constitutes one of the most nota- 
ble and interesting of all the great diplomatic acts of 
the present age. 
It disposes, in forty-three articles, of five different 
subjects of controversy between Grest Britain and 
the United States, two of them European or imperial, 
three American or colonial, and some of them of such 
nature as most imminently to imperil the precious 
peace of the two great English-speaking nations. 
Indeed, several of these objects of controversy are 
questions coeval with the national existence of the 
United States, and which, if lost sight of occasionally 
in the midst of other pre-occupations of peace or war, 
yet continually came to the surface again from time 
