140 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



by extra-judicial accusation and inculpation of tLe 

 United States in the &quot; Reasons &quot; of Sir Alexander. 



And it is amusing to read the imputations of &quot; con 

 fusion,&quot; &quot; vague and declamatory,&quot; &quot; ignorance of law 

 and history,&quot; which he applies to the American Coun 

 sel, in view of what his own countrymen say of his 

 own methods of argumentation. Indeed, it would 

 seem that the hard words of Mr. Finlason and others 

 concerning him hid made such effectual lodgment in 

 his brain that, whenever he writes, they rush forth 

 bap-hazard to be applied by him without reason or 

 discrimination to any occasional object of argument 

 or controversy. 



If, like Mr. Charles Francis Adams, Sir Alexander 

 had simply prepared brief and temperate opinions on 

 all the questions, whether favorable or not to the 

 United States, both Governments would have been 

 left in an amicable mood. As it is, in professedly 

 throwing off the character of a judge, which alone 

 belonged to him of right, of certain specific charges 

 of the United States against Great Britain, submitted 

 to him by the Treaty of Washington, and in under 

 taking to become the mere accuser of the United 

 States, he does but insult the American Govern 

 ment, while subjecting his own Government to much 

 present inconvenience and great future embarrass 

 ment. 



There is one particular feature of the &quot;Reasons&quot; 

 too remarkable to be overlooked. 



In reading these &quot;Reasons&quot; carefully, one can not 

 fail to be struck by the frequent manifestation of the] 



