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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 i En- 
‘gland, yet ultimately had the opposite effect by fore- 
ing on public 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 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 
