Bisbee daily review., 1918-12-15

Bayard was another former Feder- alist. but he was the man who had brought about Jefferson's victory over Aaron Burr. when that presidential election was thrown into the house of representatives. Clay was con spicuous Madisonian. and so was Gal latin. the eminent financier. Russell was a second Massachusetts commis- sioner of Madisonian partisanship. Ten years later he was elected to congress as a democrat, in the pres ent day party sense.
 The Peace of Ghent
 For the achievement of our commis- sion much of the credit has always been given Clay The best opinion nowadays overshadows him with Gal latin. The late Henry Adams. grand son of the American chairman on the occasion and a conscientiously just New England historian. writes: Far more than contemporaries ever supposed or than is now imagined. the Treaty of Ghent was the especial work and the peculiar triumph of Mir. Gallatin."
 Since that day. before wireless. be- fore transatlantic cables and when fast clipper with favorable winds snoiled a month in crossing the ocean. if was impossible for Washington to keen in touch with it's commission, the commissioners had to be rather mi nutely instructed before sailing and much more had to be left to their judgment and discretion than is neces-
 sary today. They were a striking assortment Bayard was delft politician, in linn ! tied sense Adams was second to mo- body in intellect Clay was a sort or American Cicero. an orator, of great personal charm and fine persuasive power alter to be known as "The i Great Compromiser" Gallatin, on 1 character. should have been the man to do what Henry Adams claims Tor him. He united appropriate ability with appropriate personality. Treaty Made Without Authority | he.peace with Mexico. concluded in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, was
 curious specimen of such negotia- ltions The lone hand American com missioner was Nicholas Philip Trist- chief clerk of the state department lunder President Polk, and, like Polk
 a thoroughgoing democrat as demo crats are today. There was nothing very intricate to negotiate with Mex lico. We had gone to war to establish
 the boundary at the Rio Grande, as against the Mexican contention for the
 Nueces.
 The peace that was made not only satisfied our government as to that lportion of the boundary but also fixed the remainder of it, giving us New
 Mexico and what was then called up lper California.
 Trist's job was to make those stipu llations and conclude a treaty yieldine to them. He first met Santa Anna.s commissioners in the summer of 1S41 lbut failed to come to an agreement and fighting was resumed At Christ mas time. 1S47, Scott's army took th' City of Mexico and Santa Anna re signed the Mexican presidency.
 Trist, then, without authority eN icept Scott's, resumed negotiations
 procured the treaty that was wanted and took it back to Washington. Poll
 submitted it to Senate on Februar! l23. and ratification came on March lo After the Spanish War
 Our treaty of peace with Spain Wal lconcluded at Paris, December 10, 1858 The American commissioners "er' William R. Day, late secretary O
 state, chairman; Senator Cushman h Davis. William P. Frye and Georg' iGray and Whitelaw Reid. All but on' of the men appointed by McKinle. were of his own party. Senator Gra' was a democrat.
 Spain relinquished sovereignty owe Cuba. ceded Porto Rico, the PhlllI
 pines and Guam, and received $2O
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 The arbitration of the Alabami claims. made possible by the Treat, . of Washington, which was concludes
 May 8, 1871, was not the end or tn war, but it removed from our inter national affairs a dangerous. dispute This arose from the fact that Con ,federate commerce destroying cruis Aers were fitted out in English port and suffered to go raiding with m sufficient interference by British oi 
 ficials.
 : The Alabama was the most famou F of these cruisers. She destroyed O captured more than seventy Fedora merchantmen. Others did nearly a ? much harm. Recognition of the cor
 federacy was a political issue in Grea ' Britain. The American minister
 Charles Francis Adams. son of Johl : Quincy Adams, was forced to carry o protracted diplomatic duel with LOT John Russell. the premier. in the ma ter of the Confederate cruiser. $ The confederacy Unrecognized - After his protest concerning the Ala
 bama the Russell government bega
 Ito conform to our views, althoug d lthere was a time, with formidabl s ironclads building for the Confedei t ates quite openly on the Clyde, whe n NIT. Adams was driven the length n saying, "It would be superfluous i o me to point out to your lordship tha q this means war"
 r The ironclads mentioned never lei E. bort The Confederacy was not rel n ognized American shippers mad fl I-F. Iar