I have also omitted any account of our acquisition of Texas, when England was not friendly--I am not sure why: probably because of the friction between us over Oregon.
But certain other minor events there are, which do require a brief reference--the boundaries of Maine, of Oregon, the Isthmian Canal, Cleveland and Venezuela, Roosevelt and Alaska; and these disputes we shall now take up together, before we deal with the very large matter of our trouble with England during the Civil War.

Chronologically, of course, Venezuela and Alaska fall after the Civil War; but they belong to the same class to which Maine and Oregon belong.

Together, all of these incidents and controversies form a group in which the underlying permanence of British good-will towards us is distinctly to be discerned.

Sometimes, as I have said before, British anger with us obscures the friendly sentiment.

But this was on the surface, and it always passed.