Excerpt from The Treaty of Washington: Its Negotiation, Execution, and the Discussions Relating Thereto The treaty or washington, 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 Great 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. 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.