Results of the War of 1812-14 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Results of the War of 1812-14 The American people since the day the Doctrine was first promulgated have never shown a disinclination to fight to maintain it, as was made plain at the time of the Venezuela incident in the second Cleveland administration. The chief disputes between this country and England in time ot peace since 1813 have been those of boundaries. In the Civil War period there were the Trent affair and the Alabama Claims controversy, both of which had their origin in the war. The disavowal by the United States Government of the act of Captain Wilkes in taking the Confederate commissioners from the British steamer was in line with our demands fifty years before which contributed so largely to bring on the War of 1812. The question of damages growing out of the depredations of the Confederate privateers, built in England, had to do with the relations of a neutral in time of war. It was the War of 1812 that smoothed the way to the peace of these hundred years by making it clear to the world that American ships the world over must be as independent as the ships of any other nation. The gaining of our independence in the Revolutionary War would have been of little moment if we had admitted the right of Great Britain to search American ships anywhere on the high seas for alleged British subjects. Such independence would have been the merest mockery. By serving notice on Great Britain, possessor of the largest navy at that time, we informed other nations that they, too, must keep hands off. The last obstacle to the achieving of complete independence was the subjection of our ships to search by a foreign nation. When that was put an end to as a result of the War of 1812, the United States stood upon the same footing as the greatest nation in Europe. It was these two wars, then, which secured to the United States its rightful place among the nations of the earth. 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.
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