With Spain, there was also a contest respecting boundaries.

The treaty of peace had extended the limits of the United States to the thirty-first degree of north latitude, but the pretensions of the Catholic King were carried north of that line, to an undefined extent.

He claimed as far as he had conquered from Britain, but the precise limits of his conquest were not ascertained.
The circumstances attending the points of difference with Great Britain, were still more serious; because, in their progress, a temper unfavourable to accommodation had been uniformly displayed.
The resentments produced by the various calamities war had occasioned, were not terminated with their cause.

The idea that Great Britain was the natural enemy of America had become habitual.

Believing it impossible for that nation to have relinquished its views of conquest, many found it difficult to bury their animosities, and to act upon the sentiment contained in the declaration of independence, "to hold them as the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends." In addition to the complaints respecting the violation of the treaty of peace, events were continually supplying this temper with fresh aliment.