1S4: THE THEAIY OF WASHINGTON. 



ers Avcrc permitted to pervert tlic privilege of lio.sj)i- 

 tality into making; .1 base of operations of Nassau or 

 of Melbourne. The recognized fault in tlie matter 

 of the SIufi((/i(f(>ah was mainly the augmentation of 

 lier crew at Melbourne", and the aildition of equip- 

 ments, witliout whie'i she could not have operated as 

 a crMi>er in the North Pacific. In the case of the 

 Ahihdiiia, and especially that of the Florida . the 

 fault was in allowing thein to come and go unmolest- 

 ed, and even favored, in the Colonial ports, when the 

 British GovernmiMit could no longer pretend to be 

 ignorant of their originally illegal character, nay, 

 when it was now fully aware of Avliat ]Mr. Adams 

 calls the "continuous, persistent, willful, flagrant false- 

 hood and perjury," ami the "malignant fraud," whic}i 

 attended the ecpiiinnent of the Confederate cruisers 

 in (Jreat l^ritain. It was this class of facts, and not 

 any such secondary consideration as the Hujii)ly of 

 coal,M-hich tiu'ncd tlie scale against Great Britain in 

 the opinions of tlic Arbiti'ators. 



No: neither .he Treaty of ^Washington, witli its 

 Kules, n(U' the Decision of the Tribunal of Geneva, 

 lias inaugurated any new policy of neutrality in the 

 Uidted States, nor created for them any rights or 

 any duties not previously possessed by and incum- 

 l)ent on tbe Government. 



WHA'r •mv. uNirKi) states have gained iiy the awaud. 

 What, then, it may be asked, have the United 

 States gained by the Treaty of Washington, and by 

 the Arbitration ? 



