American diplomacy . it has in the long run hamp-ered our adjustment to conditions; for national interests areonly relatively permanent, and their relationship with oneanother changes constantly. There can be no doubt, haw-ever, of the advantage that it was to us, in the period ofuntutored democracy upon which we were just entering;to have out a sheet anchor of fixed and respectedpolicy. In the fifteen years between 1815 and 1830 our territoryhad been further consolidated by the acquisition of Florida,. „ . great reaches of our boundary had been de- ments, 1815 to fined, and our claims to a Pa
American diplomacy . it has in the long run hamp-ered our adjustment to conditions; for national interests areonly relatively permanent, and their relationship with oneanother changes constantly. There can be no doubt, haw-ever, of the advantage that it was to us, in the period ofuntutored democracy upon which we were just entering;to have out a sheet anchor of fixed and respectedpolicy. In the fifteen years between 1815 and 1830 our territoryhad been further consolidated by the acquisition of Florida,. „ . great reaches of our boundary had been de- ments, 1815 to fined, and our claims to a Pacific coast line had 1829 been vastly strengthened. We had opened theworld so far as it interested us to our exports and* withthe exception of the British West Indies, to our had passed the crisis of the Spanish-American revolutionin such a way that the probability of European interferencein our affairs was diminished rather than increased, as it hadat one time seemed likely to be. Russia was eliminated. THE MONROE DOCTRINE 219 as a potential American power. Threads had been tied to-gether, disagreements healed or bandaged, and our nationalexperience had been crystallized into a policy to guide futuremanifestations of the national will. CHAPTER XVIII RECIPROCITY, CLAIMS, BOUNDARIES, AND THESLAVE TRADE By 1815 diplomacy had ceased to shape politics; after 1830politics began to shape diplomacy. With Jackson, shirt-Change of per- sleeve diplomacy began, but it did not reachsonnei its zei)jth till after the Civil War. The most important change in personnel took place in the state de-partment itself: in 1833 only two old officials remained; itwas the most nearly complete break ever made in the con-tinuity of that staff. This weakening of the central adminis-tration was accompanied by a remanning of the diplomaticcorps that was quite as sweeping. Appointments were noweagerly sought, and there were few more satisfactory methodsof paying political debts. Many choices were
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