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The difficulties which it has been apprehended might at
some future time arise between the United States and Great
Britain relative to that portion of our northern
boundary lying between Lake Superior and the Lake of
the Woods have been prevented by the settlement of
that question in the treaty of 1842 usually known
as "Webster's Beauty." Great Britain claimed all that
portion of our Territory lying north of the St Louis
river, while we claimed that the Kamanistaqria
or Dog river should be the boundary. By the treaty
an intermediate route was agreed upon; and here
again it is contended that the General government
has given away a portion of the Territory which
should properly have belonged to Wisconsin.

It is not probable that Illinois, Michigan, and
Great Britain will be very ready to surrender the territory
now claimed by them, and hence it becomes an