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Show Two Views of a Treaty. Tho treaty of Ghent, which ended the war of 1S12, ns signed on the 28th ' of December. 1S1 1. was variously re- I garded. Henry Clay, one of the signers, thought It "a bad treaty" and did not hesitate to sny so. In certain high quarters In England, on the other hand, It was looked upon ns n grcnt opportunity oppor-tunity thrown nwny. "An nblo minister' would have continued con-tinued the war," Lieutenant General Sir Charles Napier declared, "until the northern states withdrew from the Union, making n separate treaty with England, ofter which England could have rnlsed the negroes of the south, marched to Washington nt tho bend of nn Immense force of armed and dlsel pllned black regiments and dlctnted peace, making Delaware nn Independent Independ-ent black state In alliance with Eng land." So much depends upon tho point of view. From "Our Nation In the Building," by Helen Nicolny, in Century Magazine. |