100 Tin: THHATY OF WASHINGTON. 



Exaiuination of tlio substcaiicc of tlie " Ixeasons" 

 leads to still more unfavorable conclusions. 



While the Chief Justice exhausts himself in fault- 

 fuulimr with the Counsel of the United States it is 

 observable that he seldom, if ever, grapples with their 

 ar*^umcnts, but shoots olf instead into e])ithets of mere 

 vituperation. Indeed, if it were worth while, it would 

 ]){i easy to show that he did not really read that which 

 he so intemperately criticises. And when he under- 

 takes to deal with tiie text, it is only in the disingen- 

 uous manner of i)ickingout here and there a detached 

 paragra])h or phrase for conunent, regardless of the 

 context or the ireneial line of argument. 



Nevertheless, when he lias occasion to diller in 

 opinion with the Counsel of the United States, such 

 is the perverted state of passion and prejudice in 

 which he thinks and writes, that he imj)utes to us in- 

 tention to 2)racfice on the " supposed credulity and 

 it^norance" of the Tribunal. 



AVe were not amenable in anywise to the l^ritisli 

 Arbitrator; but, if we had been barristers in his own 

 Court of whom such things were said by him, it would 

 liave been an exam])le of judicial indecency to parallel 

 which it would bo necessary to go back to the days 

 of infamous judges like JetlVeys or Scroggs. 



Let Sir Alexander Ix; judged by his own I'ule. 

 Ci'a?nnii/i(/,aii lie did at (Jeneva, in the preparation of 

 his "Iveasons,'' he examined suiKM-ficially and wrote 

 precipitately : in consequence of which he copied 

 from the Arguments for the British Government pal- 

 pable errors, which Avere exposed and corrected iu 



