. Great debates in American history, from the debates in the British parliament on the Colonial stamp act (1764-1765) to the debates in Congress at the close of the Taft administration (1912-1913) . showing us that as to the end he himself has even animaginary conception. As I have before said, he knows notwhere he is. He is a bewildered, confounded, and miserablyperplexed man. God grant he may be able to show there is notsomething about his conscience more painful than all his mentalperplexity. On February 2, 1848, a treaty of peace known fromthe place where it was made as the Treaty of Guada
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. Great debates in American history, from the debates in the British parliament on the Colonial stamp act (1764-1765) to the debates in Congress at the close of the Taft administration (1912-1913) . showing us that as to the end he himself has even animaginary conception. As I have before said, he knows notwhere he is. He is a bewildered, confounded, and miserablyperplexed man. God grant he may be able to show there is notsomething about his conscience more painful than all his mentalperplexity. On February 2, 1848, a treaty of peace known fromthe place where it was made as the Treaty of GuadalupeHidalgo, was signed by Mexico and the United States, and on July 4 was proclaimed to be in force. TheAmerican negotiator was Nicholas P. Trist of Virginia.By the terms of this treaty the Eio Grande was estab-lished as the boundary of the eastern portion of thecession, and in the west the Eivers Gila and Coloradowere so followed as to give the United States all theterritory then known as New Mexico and Upper Cali-fornia. The United States agreed to pay Mexico$15, 000, 000, and to assume the payment of all claims THE MEXICAN WAR 377 adjudged against Mexico in the conventions of 1839and 1843.. AN AVAILABLE CANDIDATETHE ONE QUALIFICATION FOR A WHIG PRESIDENT [Caricature of General Seott in 1852 ]From the collection of the New York Historical Society CHAPTER Xin The Trent Affair Captain Charles Wilkes, U. S. N., of the San Jacinto, Takes John Slidelland James M. Mason, Confederate Commissioners, to Great Britain, fromBritish steamer Trent—Act Is Approved by Gideon Welles, Secretary ofthe Navy—Negotiations with British Government—William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Delivers Up the Commissioners to Great Britain-Debate in the Senate on This Act: in Favor, Charles Sumner [Mass.];Opposed, John P. Hale [N. H.]. IN the Civil War the chief hope of the Southern Con-federacy lay in securing foreign intervention. Inthe beginning of the conflict it sent as commis-sioners to Great Brit