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Edward Thornton (search for this): entry joint-high-commission
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Joint high commission.
The government of the United States, in behalf of its citizens, claimed from Great Britain damages inflicted on the American shipping interests by the depredations of the Alabama (q. v.) and other Anglo-Confederate cruisers.
To effect a peaceful solution of the difficulty, Reverdy Johnson (q. v.), of Maryland, was sent to England, in 1868, to negotiate a treaty for that purpose.
His mission was not satisfactory.
The treaty which he negotiated was almost universally condemned by his countrymen, and was rejected by the Senate.
His successor, John Lo- Throp Motley (q. v.), appointed minister at the British Court, was charged with the same mission, but failed in that particular, and was recalled in 1870.
The matter was finally settled by arbitration.
Much correspondence succeeded the efforts to settle by treaty.
Finally, in January, 1871, the British minister at Washington, Sir Edward Thornton, in a letter to Secretary Fish, proposed, under instructions