liit Tin: thi:aty of Washington. 



ti'iuphrAil being heard lor many moiitlic. And tlio 

 result of all this meditation, and of all this earnest 

 de'^ii-c to serve his conn try, was a series of arccunients 

 mostly immaterial to the issue, as the final judgment 

 of the Tril)unal plainly shows, and coming in alter the 

 main question had been aetually settled in the cases 

 of the Alahama and \\\^i Florida. That is to say, — 

 and it is in this relation the ])oint is introduced, — 

 the claims of the United States rested ou a basis 

 which all the great forensic skill and ability of ISir 

 Koundell Palmer could not move, — which commend- 

 ed itself to the conlidence of the neutral Arbitrators, 

 — and which even extorted the reluctant adhesion of 

 the prejudiced J'ritish Arbitrator. 



Subsequently, on requirement of the Arljitrators, 

 we discussed, in successive printed Arguments, the 

 special '(question of the legal cfiect of the entry of 

 i\\<i Florida into ^Mobile; the (juestion of the recruit- 

 ment of men for the Shenandoah at Melbourne; and 

 the question of interest as an element of the indemni- 

 ty due to the. United States. 



QUESTION OF DAMAGES. 



]\Ieanwhile, the Tribunal had voted definitively on 

 tlie (piestion of the liability or nondiability of Great 

 Britain for the acts of the ci'uisers named in the 

 "Case" of the United States, in the terms which will 

 appear in explaining their final judgment. They had 

 also voted on several of the incidental questions, such 

 as the abstract question of due diligence, entry into 

 Confederate ports, commission, and supply of coal. 



