In addition to this, trouble soon arose over the boundary line northward and westward from the source of the Saint Croix. The ongl nal treaty had been exceedingly vague on this subject, and finally in 1827 the king of the Netherlands was named as referee to conclude the dispute. After failing for a long time IC satisfy either party with any of his suggesnon'; he drew a line to suit himself, awarding part °' the disputed territory to Maine and part to New Brunswick. The United States rejected this arrangement, while in the meantime the disturbances on the border kept becoming more and more serious. Operations of the 1830 cen sus takers in the contested area created ouch feeling, and eight years later an American ber dealer was thrown into jail by New Brqs; wick officials— the act having much to do vio° the precipitation of the Aroostook war. Al though no blood was spilled in this it ram. very near to maturing into a third war of" England. A joint occupation was agreed neon as a temporary compromise, before Daniel ster and Lord Ashburton came together In Im and drew up the famous treaty which settled all dispute as to that particular part of the boundary line.
It has been related as an historical fact that in these negotiations both nations withheld maps which were unfavorable to their claims. The
Americans had one which had been discovered but a short time before in Paris, and was sup posed to have been drawn up by Benjamin Franklin, while in the possession of the English was one made by Richard Oswald, who was one of the commissioners who negotiated in the treaty which gave the United States its independence. Later both nations showed these maps to their own people in evidence of how conclusively they had got the best of the bar gain. Up to the present time, however, the United States has always regarded the signing of this treaty of 1842 as a diplomatic triumph.
The treaty of 1842, however, made no men tion of any part of the boundary south of the monument which had been erected at the source of the Saint Croix, and until Secretary Knox and Ambassador Bryce signed their treaty of 1910 the lower part of the line in places was still contested. But with the signing of this latest treaty and the final settlement of the whole chaotic matter no point now remains between the United States and Canada which is in the slightest dispute.