Did England hold us to it?
All this happened in the lifetime of many of us, and we know that she did not hold us to it.

She gave us what we asked, and she did so because she felt its justice, and that it in no way menaced her with injury.

All this began in 1850 and ended, as we know, in the time of Roosevelt.
About 1887 our seal-fishing in the Behring Sea brought on an acute situation.

Into the many and intricate details of this, I need not go; you can find them in any good encyclopedia, and also in Harper's Magazine for April, 1891, and in other places.

Our fishing clashed with Canada's.