Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-07-06
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ana his CORY young Republicans had
mustered sufficient strength TO declare
war the British parliament already
was discussing the abandonment of the
Objectionable practices of which the
Americans complained. If that fact
had been known in Washington the
action taken by congress century ago
would have been made impossible.
When the peace commissioners met
in Client in 1911 the Americans were
Wiling to accept peace on terms most
advantageous to Great Britain. The
American arms had been VIGOROUSLY
unsuccessful on land, and although the
naval victories We're most glorious. the
wiser heads of the Madison administra-
ton We're ready to quit. The capital
had been captured and sacked. the
public buildings burned and the presi-
dent forced to flee into the country.
The land forces had proved to be most
incapable. and there had been scandal
after scandal in the army
Therefore the American commission
ers were willing to sign n treaty OF
peace which said a great deal about
the boundary between the United
States and Canada. but never a word
about the right of Great Britain to
search American ships and impress
American Seamen-
The British public deemed the treaty
of Client to be complete victory for
England, and if the news of the con-
clusion of peace had reached America
at once there is little doubt that even
Americans would have admitted vir-
tual defeat But more than three weeks
after the treaty was signed. and long
before news of it had reached Amerf-
can shores, General Andrew Jackson
at New Orleans had destroyed the Brit
ish army and had restored the glory of
American arms.
DIPLOMACY LOST CHANCE
! The moral victory won by the United
States might easily have been achieved
by diplomacy, for it was not in battle.
nor yet in the treaty of Client, that the
victory was recorded. Its first record
| is in the treaty of July 5, 1915. signed
| after the news of the battle of New
| Orleans had reached London and which
was called a commercial treaty 1t
provided for amicable intercourse be-
tween the merchant ships of both ma
tons and opened the British ports of
| the West Indies to American vessels
| This was followed by the treaty of
1917, limiting the armament on the
| Canadian border
The Perry memorial, which is being
erected at Put-in-Bay, o., is in commem-
Grafton of the victory of Commodore
Oliver Hazard Perry, his officers and
men at the battle of Lake Erie. and
| also as a memorial to the hundred
years of peace between this country
! and Great Britain An appropriation
| of about 100000 was made by the
United States government and various
states for the building of the memo
rial.
Put-in-Bay is between South Bass
and Gibraltar islands 1t was here that
| Commodore Perry's squadron lay in
| September, 1913, before the battle. and
| to which it returned with the captured
4 British ships. A lookout ON the high
| bluffs of Gibraltar island saw the OPP
posing fleet. and the battle was fought
| about eight miles to the northwest
| After the victory the troops under Gen.
eral William Henry Harrison were
brought on Perry's ships to South Bass
island The troops were drilled on the
island and captured Detroit