Excerpt from The History of the United States, Vol. 2 of 4: From Their Colonization to the End of the Twenty-Sixth Congress, in 1841 Under the administration of Mr. Adams, the United States were about to be put to a new course of trials, both in their foreign relations and in the contests Of their domestic parties. The difficulties with Great Britain had indeed been settled by Jay's treaty, but the country was partly, if not principally, by reason of that very treaty, about to be involved in similar difficulties with France that exposed it to some dangers from which the disputes with Great Britain had been exempt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.