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THE

UNITED STATES.

DEMOCRATIC REVIEW.

MAY, 1856.

GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.

NUMBER TWO.

As if the questions raised, between the two governments, upon the Clayton-Bulwer convention, were not full enough of danger to a continued good understanding between them, the government of Great Britain, at the very moment when that discussion was the least amicable, saw fit to introduce into our intercourse a new and more threatening element. It undertook, in violation of the municipal law of the United States-in violation of the faith of treaties, of international comity and law, of every principle of friendship and fair dealing, and in derogation of our rights and honor as a sovereign State-to raise and recruit men for the British army within our territory, and make the government of the United States an involuntary accessory to the western powers in their aggressions against one of our best friends and firmest allies. In our leading article of last month we applied the test of common sense to the claims raised by Her Majesty's government upon their interpretation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty; and we have shown from their own record, that those claims were not only entirely unfounded, but clearly impertinent; that they were in fact

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