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It is perhaps the most humiliating compact into which America ever entered.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “It is perhaps the most humiliating compact into which America ever entered.”
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Beveridge describes the Treaty negotiated by Jay as a deeply humiliating agreement for America.
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