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Tribunal, or printed for the information of Agents 

 and Counsel, as a resolution of the Tribunal, adopted 

 on his own motion, required, 1 he presents this Argu 

 ment as his &quot;Reasons . . . for dissenting from the 

 Decision of the Tribunal of Arbitration.&quot; The title 

 of the document is a false pretense, as we shall con 

 clusively show -in due time : the act was a dishonor 

 able imposition on the Tribunal, and on both. Gov 

 ernments, Great Britain as much as the United 

 States. 



In point of fact, the document filed by Sir Alexan 

 der was in large part of such a character that, if it 

 had been offered for filing at any proper time, and 

 with opportunity to persons concerned to become ac 

 quainted with its contents, it must [as declared by 

 the Secretary of State of the United States in his dis 

 patch to the American Agent of October 22, 1872] 

 have been the plain duty of the American Agent 

 to object to its reception, and of the Tribunal to re 

 fuse it, as calculated and designed to weaken the just 

 authority of the Arbitrators, as insulting to the United 

 States in the tenor of much of its contents, and as in 

 jurious to Great Britain by its tendency to raise up 

 obstacles to the acceptance of the Award, and to pro 

 duce alienation between the two Governments. 



The document consisted, in part, of the opinions of 

 Sir Alexander Cockburn on the several vessels, copies 

 of which he ought to have delivered in print to the 

 Agent and Counsel of the United States, in conform 

 ity with his own resolution, but which he failed to 

 do, thus depriving the American Government of ad- 



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