Existing comment:
Treaty of Ghent:
December 24, 1814 -- The negotiators reach an accord. Gallatin sends his own evaluation of the treaty to Hannah:
Ghent, 25th Dec. 1814
... Whatever objections may be made to it [the treaty], and objections there will be, it is as good as could be obtained, and as good as, from the relative situation of the two countries and from the present political state of Europe, we had at this moment a right to expect...
Within the American delegation, Adams, a consummate statesman, admitted it was Gallatin who made the lagest and most important contribution towards ending the war. |