280 ORAL ARGUMENT OP JAMES C. CARTER, ESQ. 



oithor by an award of property to the United States, or by the estab- 

 lisliment of regulations tantamonnt to such an award of property, 

 which shall ])revent any slaughter of the species on the seas, and remit 

 the entire taking to the Islands, where it can be carried on forever con- 

 sistently with natural laws, as it has already been carried on for half a 

 century. 



If the decision of this Tribunal shall be in accordance with those 

 great laws of nature which I have attempted to elucidate and to support, 

 it will remain a guide, an instructive guide, for present and for future 

 times in the adjustment of international controversies. If it shall be 

 otherwise, it will be, of itself, a new source of strife and contention, and 

 will add to the difficulties, already sufficiently great, which embarrass 

 the intercourse of nations. Such is the responsibility of this high 

 Tribunal, and I am not to doubt that it will be resolutely, fiiithfully, 

 and effectively discharged. 



The President. Mr. Carter, at the conclusion of this long and 

 weighty argument, without presuming to express any ojiinion in refer- 

 ence to the merits of your case, I cannot refrain from expressing my 

 acknowledgment of the lofty views which you have taken of the general 

 principles involved in your subject, and which you have developed 

 before us. You have sjioken in a language well worthy of this high 

 court of peace between nations. You have spoken for nmnkind. 



Mr. Carter. I am very much obliged, Mr. President. 



[The Tribunal adjourned until Wednesday, May 3, 1893, at 11.30 

 o'clock.] 



