ALABAMA CLAIMS. 1S5 



AVc have irahied the vindication of our licrlits as 

 a Government; the redress of the urong done to our 

 citizens; the political prestige, in Europe and Amer- 

 ica, of the enforcement of our rii^-hts ajiainst tlic most 

 powerful State of Christendom ; the elevation of 

 maxims of right and of justice into the judgment-seat 

 of the world ; the recognition of our theory and poli- 

 cy of neutrality l)y (Jreat Britain ; the lionoraLle con- 

 clusion of a long-standing controvei'sy and the ex- 

 tinction of a cause of war Ijetween Great Ih'itain and 

 the United States; and the moral authority of hav- 

 ing accomplished these great ohjects without war, by 

 peaceful means, by appeals to conscience and to rea- 

 son, tl^^^uo-h the arbitrament of a hiirh international 

 Trilninai. 



That war, the great curse and scourge of mankind, 

 will utterly cease because of the present successful 

 instance of international arbitration, nobody pretends. 

 Questions t)f national aml)ition or national resent- 

 ment, — conllicts of dynastic interest, — schemes of ter- 

 ritoi'ial aggrandizement, — nay, deeper causes, resting 

 in Hupei'alnindant pop\dation or other intei'nal facts 

 of DKiIaise, misery and discontent, — will continue to 

 produce wars to the end of time. 



"Noil, sans doutc," says ^\. ile i\razatlp, — spctkinc,' of tlic 

 notH of tlio Tribunal, — *' la t^ui-nv nVnl pfdnt l»annio «k' cc 

 niondo, olio n'osL jias vcnii)laore par un tribunal do concilia- 

 lion faisant rcntrcr au founrau Ics v\wv» iiniiationlcs dVu sor- 

 lir: CO n'ost pas molns un ('•vi'ncniont carac'ti'risli([»JO vi lu-u- 

 rcux que Ic succos dc cc tribunal dV'<piilc', de ccltc sorlc do jus- 

 tice internationalc." . . . 



AVe, Great Britain and the United States, have in 



