02 THE THE AT V 01' WASHINGTON. 



Intclligviit IK'0])](.' llieiv, oil reading tlic American 

 Case, tlieii opened tlieir eyes universally to the fact 

 that Great Britain was about to he tried beibre a lii<di 

 court constituted by three neutral Governments. 

 That was not an agreeable subject of reilection. In- 

 telligent Englishmen also, on reading the American 

 Case, began to be uneasily conscious of the strength 

 of the cause of the United States. And that Avas not 

 an agreeable subject of reilection. For a good cause, 

 in a good court, seemed likely to result in a great in- 

 ternational judgment adverse to England. 



The specific objections preferred were quite futile. 

 Thus, complaint was made because the Case charired 

 the i^ritish Ministers uiih unfiiendliness to the 

 United States for a certain jieriod of the Civil AVar. 

 ])Ut the charge Avas ])roved by citing the declarations 

 of those ^Ministers; it Avas not, and could not be de- 

 nied by any candid Englishman; it is admitted by 

 Sir Alexander Cockburn in the dissenting 02)inion 

 which \\v fdi'd at the close of the Arbitration. And 

 the charge was pertinent, because it e.\])lained the 

 ncLrliirent acts of subordinate liritish authorities, as 

 at Liverpool or Nassau : which acts could not be 

 otherwise explained unless by suggesting a worse 

 imputation, namely, that of hostile insincerity on the 

 part of the Tdinisters. 



If there be any person at the present day, Avho is 

 inclined to call in question the truth of the foregoing 

 I'cmarks, he is earnestly entreated to read the Amer- 

 ican Case now, in the light of the adjudijed (juilt of 

 the British Government, and lie will then see ample 



