To take such a convention as the model for a treaty which was to determine a national grievance of transcendent importance in the relations of two countries marked on the threshold an insensibility to the true nature of the difference to be settled.
Sumner emphasizes the inadequacy of using a convention model to address a major national grievance between the U.S. and Great Britain.
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