The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ssioner by thestate of Massachusetts, to settlethe question of the northeasternboundary of the state. Mr. Lawrence settled thisdifficult question with Lord Ashburton, the repre-sen
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ssioner by thestate of Massachusetts, to settlethe question of the northeasternboundary of the state. Mr. Lawrence settled thisdifficult question with Lord Ashburton, the repre-sentative of Great Britain, on a basis that was satis-factory to both governments. In 1844 he was dele-gated to the whig convention, and one of the electors-at-large for the state, and his name was prominentlyput forward for vice-president, on the ticket withGen. Taylor, and he only lacked six votes of <5eingnominated for the office. He declined a portfolio inPresident Taylors cabinet, but accepted the positionof U. S. minister to Great Britain, and in 1849 sailedfor England. He resumed the negotiations regard-ing the Nicaragua canal, that had been brought for-ward by his predecessor, Mr. Bancroft, and founddocuments in the archives that illegalized Englandsterritorial claims in Central America. He was ar-ranging this paper into a legal argument and histori-cal document, when, much to his regret, he received. OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 63 word In 1850, from the secretary of state, Mr. Clay-ton, that these negotiations were entirely trans-ferred to Washington, and that he was to cease al-together to press them in London. Mr. Lawrencepersonally held that whenever the history of theconduct of Great Britain shall he published to theworld, it will not stand one hour before the bar ofpublic opinion, without universal Lawrence devoted considerable attention toanother matter left unsettled by Mr. Bancroft, rela-tive to the postal rates on the transit of letters acrossEngl
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