32 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



Intelligent people there, on reading the American 

 Case, then opened their eyes universally to the fact 

 that Great Britain was ahout to he tried before a hi^h 

 court constituted by three neutral Governments. 

 That was not an agreeable subject of reflection. In- 

 telligent Englishmen also, on reading the American 

 Case, began to be uneasily conscious of the strength 

 of the cause of the United States. And that was not 

 an agreeable subject of reflection. For a good cause, 

 in a good court, seemed likely to result in a great in- 

 ternational judgment adverse to England. 



The specific objections preferred were quite futile. 

 Thus, complaint was made because the Case charged 

 the British Ministers with unfriendliness to the 

 United States for a certain period of the Civil War. 

 But the charge was proved by citing the declarations 

 of those Ministers ; it was not, and could not be de- 

 nied by any candid Englishman ; it is admitted by 

 Sir Alexander Cockburn in the dissenting opinion 

 which he filed at the close of the Arbitration. And 

 the charge was pertinent, because it explained the 

 necfliirent acts of subordinate British authorities, as 

 at Liverpool or Nassau : which acts could not be 

 otherwise explained unless by suggesting a worse 

 X imputation, namely, that of hostile insincerity on the 

 part of the Ministers. 



If there be any person at the present day, who is 

 inclined to call in question the truth of the foregoing 

 remarks, he is earnestly entreated to read the Amer- 

 ican Case now, in the light of the adjudged guilt of 

 the British Government, and he will then see ample 



