MO Tlir. TUKATV OF WASHINGTON. 



ni^rcrahlc to tlie Iii'itlsh (lovci'iuiiciit to liavc all the 

 old (It'l^atu roopuncil l)y tlic Chirt' Justice, — to liavo 

 tlio Treaty, its JviileM, the Arbitration, and tlic Award, 

 made by Jiini the i^ubjeet of profuse denunciation, — to 

 have an arsi-nal of weapons, goc.nl, bad, r)r indill'erent, 

 collected liy liini for the use of the Opposition in J'ar- 

 lianu-iit. 



Nor can it be agreeable to sec tlie Arbitrator they 

 had aj)])ointed demean liimself so fantastically, and, 

 as the j'higli>h Pivss is constrained to admit, in a 

 manner so painfully in contrast with the dignity and 

 judicial impartiality of the American Arbitrator. 



The Cliancellor of the Kxcherpicr [Mr. Lowe] gave 

 utterance to these sentiments of tri-ief and reirret in a 

 sj)eech at Glasgow on the 2Gth of September, as fol- 

 lows : 



"I conceive our duty to 1)C to oljcy llio Award, and to pay 

 wliatcvcr is assessed ai:;ainst \is witlioul cavil or coinineiit of 

 any kind. [C'iicers.] 1 am Jiapjiy to say that Kucii is llic 0[nu- 

 ion of iriy learned friend, the Lord Chief Justice. 15nt I ninst 

 say, Vvilh tlie ;;reatest hubinissiun to my learned friend, tliat I 

 wish liin jiractice had accorded a lillle moic accnrately with 

 his theory. He lias advised n» to Kubmit, us I advise you to 

 Hnhmit, to the Award, and not only to i)ay the money, but to 

 IbrcLit) fiir once the national habit of ^rnnd)linf; — Ihui'^hter]— 

 ami to CDnsiiler that we are bound in honor to do what we are 

 t(»ld, and that, having onei' put the thin;^ out of our power in 

 tlic honorable and the hii^h-minded way in which the nation 

 has done, the only way in which wc should treat it is simply 

 to obey the AwarV and to abstain from any comment wliatever 

 as to what tlu^ Arbitrators have done. [Cheers.] But, if my 

 learned friend the Lord Chief Justice thought Bo, I can only 

 very much regret that he did not take the course of simply 

 signing the Award with the other Arbitrators, it being perfectly 



