a young congressman from ohio, joshua giddings, joshua. he proposed a resolution dealing with the creole issue. very clever. he has a long resolution. there is no federal slavery. you could hit them saying, good for you. it is a state matter. state rights. but when a ship leaves a state and goes into international waters of the atlantic for example, the persons on board are no longer subject to slave laws of that state. when the creole left virginia, virginia had no more jurisdiction over those slaves and the persons on board were simply returned to their natural rights. he was very clever. he was making an attack using the creole as an example. the biggest thing in slavery was moving this mass redistribution of slaves from the upper south around to the southwest. he was going after that. it is a short fuse for everybody. the next day, the house of representatives voted overwhelmingly for money to censor john. he got out of his desk at the house floor and walked down to john quincy adams desk, shook his hand, and left the house. he said go

. -- joshua giddings. christmas eve, prime minister meets their young queen says, a third war with the united states is on the horizon. she said, oh my god, what can we do? remember afghanistan in the back of your minds. said, inister peele have an idea, i propose a special mission, and i think you ought to nominate alexander bearing of bearing brothers, lord ashburton, to come to the united states to represent great powers with full to do whatever he wants to settle all of these issues -- the borders, and the carolinas, and everything else. she says, that is a good deal, we will do it. ,lexander behring, as i said lord ashburn, and daniel webster were clients and lawyers for years, three years before he had come over to the u.k., he was invited to balls, etc. he arrives in annapolis early april. the queen had wanted him to deliver the message that this was great britain that the americans were dealing with. thatent him on a frigate was so large and needed a crew of 500 to manage it. the americans got the