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tlie Arguments for tlic United States. Thus it is that 

 he falls into the mistake of asserting a fake construe- 

 tion of an Act of Congress, by having a mutilated 

 text before him, quoting a part of a sentence, Avhich 

 may or may not justify his construction, and sup- 

 pressing the context and the secpient words of the 

 name sentence, -which clearly contradict his construc- 

 tion. * Acting on his own theory of Llind prejudice, 

 we sliould be compelled to assume that on this occa- 

 sion he perpetrates a deed of deliberate bad faith, 

 ■with intention to j)i -a dice on the "supposed credulity 

 and ignorance" of the people of Great Britain. 



AVhy did the British Arlntrator put together such 

 a mass of angry, irrelevant, confused, and contradict- 

 ory dt'clamatiou against the American Govei-nment, 

 and denunciation of its Agent and Counsel ? To vin- 

 dicate the Iioiior of British statesmen, Sir Alexander 

 declare?, in a speech at a banquet in London [Novem- 

 ber 4th], against unjust charges coming from the 

 American Government. But that shoidd have been 

 done by speech or otherwise, as Sir AIc\ra)i(kr Coch 

 hum i)rofessedly, and in England, and not nnder the 

 false pretense of an Arbiti'ator at Geneva. And vi- 

 olent denunciation of our Case or Arguments consti- 

 tutes no answer to our charges. And in such vituper- 

 ation of the American Agent and Counsel, Sir Alexan- 

 der not only throws oiY all pretense of judicial cliarac- 

 tcr, and assumes the tone of a mere advocate, but he 

 acts the part of an advocate in temper and manner 

 such as the proper Counsel of the British Govern- 

 ment could not have descended to. Indeed, the 



