The right of search in time of peace controversy, first eased by the plan of joint cruising, had been definitely settled by the British renunciation of 1858.

Opposition to American territorial advance but briefly manifested by Britain, had ended with the annexation of Texas, and the fever of expansion had waned in America.

Minor disputes in Central America, related to the proposed canal, were amicably adjusted.
But differences between nations, varying view-points of peoples, frequently have deeper currents than the more obvious frictions in governmental act or policy, nor can governments themselves fail to react to such less evident causes.

It is necessary to review the commercial relations of the two nations--later to examine their political ideals.
In 1783 America won her independence in government from a colonial status.

But commercially she remained a British colony--yet with a difference.