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tliey actually tleclded, tlie immediate efiect of the De- 

 cision, and the general relation thereof to Great Brit- 

 ain, to the United States, and to the other Govern- 

 ments of Europe and America. 



iu:vn:w of the decision of .the tiudunal on national 



LOSSES. 



To begin, let us sec what was the true thought of 

 the Tribunal regarding the class of claims, as to which 

 the British Government displayed so much supertlu- 

 ous emotion subseipicntly to the })ublication of the 

 American Case, and which the Tribunal passed upon, 

 in elVect, without previous decision whether they were 

 or were not emln'accd ir. the Treaty. 



I liavc already called attention to the fact that no 

 consideration o? (//'net or indiro'l^ inu/io/icitc <»r co/tst:- 

 rji/()i(ic(/, appears in that opinion of the Tribunal. 

 The Arbitrators express a conclusion, not the reasons i.*^,, 

 of the conclusion. AVe might, it is true, easily infer 

 those reasons from the laniiuaire in which the conelu- 

 slon is expressed. That language excludes all such 

 trivial questions as whether "direct" or "indirect," 

 and invokes us to seek for the luiexpressed reasons in 

 some higher order of ideas. Meanwhile we have, at 

 lengtli, in the Anal "Decision," means of ascertaining 

 the whole thought of the Tribunal. 



The Arbitrators had to pass on a claim of indemni- 

 ty for the costs of pursuit of Confederate cruisers by 

 tlic Government: — a claim admitted to be within the 

 jurisdiction of the Tribunal, and which the Tribunal 

 rejects on the ground that such costs " are not, in the 



