138 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



Examination of the substance of the &quot;Reasons 1 

 leads to still more unfavorable conclusions. 



While the Chief Justice exhausts himself in fault 

 finding with the Counsel of the United States, it is 

 observable that he seldom, if ever, grapples with their 

 arguments, but shoots off instead into epithets of mere 

 vituperation. Indeed, if it were worth while, it would 

 be easy to show that he did not really read that which 

 he so intemperately criticises. And when he under 

 takes to deal with the text, it is only in the disingen 

 uous manner of picking out here and there a detached 

 paragraph or phrase for comment, regardless of the 

 context or the general line of argument. 



Nevertheless, when he has occasion to differ in 

 opinion with the Counsel of the United States, such 

 is the perverted state of passion and prejudice in 

 which he thinks and writes, that he imputes to us in 

 tention to practice on the &quot; supposed credulity and 

 ignorance&quot; of the Tribunal. 



We were not amenable in anywise to the British 

 Arbitrator ; but, if we had been barristers in his own 

 Court of whom such things were said by him, it would 

 have been an example of judicial indecency to parallel 

 which it would be necessary to go back to the days 

 of infamous judges like Jeffreys or Scroggs. 



Let Sir Alexander be judged by his own rule. 

 Cramming, as he did at Geneva, in the preparation of 

 his &quot; Reasons, 1 he examined superficially and wrote 

 precipitately : in consequence of which he copied 

 from the Arguments for the British Government pal 

 pable errors, which were exposed and corrected in 



