Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Fairfield of Maine on the Northeastern Boundary Question: Delivered in the House of Representatives, Thursday, March 8, 1838 Here, also, we find important modifications of the agreements before stated. In both of those agreements, the acts of sovereignty from which the parties were to abstain were unqualified acts of sovereignty. Now, it is not any act of jurisdiction or sovereignty whatever, but those acts only which have for their object to strengthen the claim of the party exercising it; and in proportion, therefore, to the difficulty of deciding upon the precise object of either of the parties in any particular act of juris diction exercised, is the agreement made loose, ia definite, and worse than none. Here, then, are three attempts to state the agreement, and neither agrees with the others. They all differ in very essential particulars. If, therefore, my colleague should have succeeded in showing, as he attempted, that the succeeding Administration had stated the agreement differently, at different times, and that some degree of confusion had been produced upon the subject, I think some allowance should be made on account of the example which, it is perceived, had been set them by their predecessors. 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.