Excerpt from Makers of American History: The Lewis Clark Exploring Expedition, 1804-06 Political affairs of the Republic. Spain also re sented its transfer to the United States since her agreement on the cession of the territory to France was that the latter should not subsequently alienate it - a matter that gave Napoleon no trouble but also because she hotly protested against the loss Of West Florida, and in consequence refused to pay the United States her claim upon Spain of sums due her for the spoliation of American commerce. The mat ter, for the time, went into the limbo of diplomatic negotiation, as far as Spain was concerned, though afterwards in our relations with the Power that had discovered America the trouble was amicably settled in our favor. Peaceful adjudication of our differ ences with Spain was materially helped in 1819 when, under Madison's r gime, East Florida was ceded to the United States for a payment of with the renunciation of all claims by Spain north of the forty-second parallel as far west as the Pacific. 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.