58 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



umes folio, contains little new matter, being in part, 

 at least, defensive argument in response to the Amer 

 ican &quot; Case.&quot; 



The American Counter-Case, consisting of two 

 volumes folio, replies argumentatively to the British 

 &quot;Case,&quot; and brings forward a large body of docu 

 mentary proofs, responsive to matters contained in 

 that &quot; Case,&quot; which, although utterly foreign to the 

 question at issue, required to be met, because con 

 sidered material by Great Britain, namely, allegations 

 of default on the part of the United States in the 

 execution of their own neutrality laws, to the preju 

 dice of other Governments. 



The introduction of all this matter into the British 

 Case, the iteration of it in the British Counter-Case 

 and the British- Argument, and the extreme promi 

 nence given to it, as we shall hereafter see, by the 

 British Arbitrator, serve* to illustrate the singular 

 unreasonableness and injustice of the angry com 

 plaints emitted in England against the American 

 Case. 



The American Case contains no suggestion which 

 is not strictly pertinent to the issues raised by the 

 Treaty. It discusses the conduct of the British Gov- 

 eminent relatively to the United States during our 

 Civil War, with strict application to the &quot;Alabama 

 Claims.&quot; It charges that, in those transactions, the 

 British Government w^as guilty of culpable omission 

 to observe the requirements of the law of nations as 

 respects the United States, and with responsible neg 

 ligence in the non-execution of the neutrality laws of 



