120 THE THEATY OF ;VASIIINGTON. 



How could he presume to condemn Great Britain in 

 this IjchaU*, ignorantly, Llindly, in tlie dark, and ^vith• 

 out assistance of the " reasoning and learning" of the 

 eminent Counsel in attendance on tlie Tribunal ? 



But even Sir Alexander Coclvljurn could no longer 

 resist tlic force of conviction, nor help admitting the 

 trutli of tlic allegation of tlie United States, tlieir 

 Agent and Counsel, imputing culpable negligence to 

 his Government. The United States had, not with- 

 out cause, brought the r)ritish Government to the bar 

 of public opinion and of the Tribunal of Arbitration ; 

 himself now confessing it, their Agent and Counsel 

 had not been engaged, as he had charged, in prefer- 

 ring "false accusations, nnwortliy of them and of 

 their Government." And if the proved and admit- 

 ted truth of these accusations implies impeachment 

 oi i\\{i }-)crHonal honor of any Bi'itish ^Minister or ^\'\\\- 

 istrrs, that is not tlio fault of tlie Annn'ican Govern- 

 ment, its Airent or Counsel, but of the British Gov- 

 ornment, whose violation of neutrality is at length 

 conceiled even by Sir Alexander Cockburn. 



In the ultimate judgment of all the Arbiti'ators, 

 the condemnation of the Alabama and the Florida 

 carried with it the condemnation of their respective 

 tenders, namely, the Tuscaloosa^ the Clarence, the Ta- 

 coni/,[iud t\\Q Archer. • 



CASE OF THE "SHENANDOAH" DECIDED. 



There remained but three vessels as to whose re- 

 sponsibility we had reason to have hopes, namely, 

 the Georgia, the Hctrihutlon, and the Shenandoah ; 



