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addressing the Tribunal of Arbitration. And it is 

 the negation of all these great principles of &quot;justice,&quot; 

 &quot; equity,&quot; or &quot; conscience,&quot; which pervades the &quot; Rea 

 sons &quot; of Sir Alexander Cockburn : in reflecting on 

 which, the inind irresistibly reverts to that same line 

 of reasoning which astonished the world in his par 

 liamentary advocacy of David Pacifico. 



And now, who is injured by Sir Alexander s acri 

 monious arraignment of the United States in the last 

 hour of the Arbitration? It does not successfully 

 maintain the honor of the British Ministers; for it 

 recognizes their failure to exercise due diligence, 

 whether tried by the Treaty Rules, by the law of na 

 tions, or by the Act of Parliament. Does it influence 

 the action of the Tribunal ? No : that was consum 

 mated already. Does it injure the American Govern 

 ment, its Agent and Counsel ? Xo : so far as regards 

 us, it does but prove that the American Agent and 

 Counsel have done their duty regardless of the vin 

 dictive ill-will of the British Arbitrator, and that the 

 United States have been successful to such a degree 

 as to throw the Chief Justice of England into ecstasies 

 of spiteful rage, in which he strikes out wildly against 

 friend and foe alike, but chiefly against his own Gov- 

 ernnient, in his desultory criticism as well of the 

 Treaty of Washington as of the judgment of the Tri 

 bunal of Arbitration. 



For the British Government, we know, has no dis 

 position to repudiate the Treaty, and it accepts th&amp;lt; 

 Award in good faith, and desires that it should be 

 \ cepted by the people of Great Britain. It can not b&amp;lt; 



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