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addressing tlie Tribunal of Arbitration. And it is 

 the negation of all these great principles of "justice," 

 " equity," or " conscience," which pervades the " Rea- 

 sons " of Sir Alexander Cockburn : in reflecting on 

 which, the mind irresistibly reverts to that same line 

 of reasoning which astonished the world in his par- 

 liamentary advocacy of David Pacifico. 



And now, who is injured by Sir Alexander's acri- 

 monious arraignment of the United States. in the last 

 hour of the Arbitration? It does not successfully 

 maintain the Tionor of the British Ministers; for it 

 recoo-nizes their failure to exercise due dilio;ence, 

 whether tried by the Treaty Rules, by the law of na- 

 tions, or by the Act of Parliament. Does it influence 

 the action of the Tribunal ? No : that was consum- 

 mated already. Does it injure the American Govern- 

 ment, its Agent and Counsel ? No : so far as regards 

 us, it does but prove that the American Agent and 

 Counsel have done their duty regardless of the vin- 

 dictive ill-will of the British Arbitrator, and that the 

 United States have been successful to such a degree 

 as to throw the Chief Justice of England into ecstasies 

 of spiteful rage, in which he strikes out "wildly against 

 friend and foe alike, but chiefly against his own Gov- 

 ernment, in his desultory criticism as well of the 

 Treaty of Washington as of the judgment of the Tri- 

 bunal of Arbitration. 



For the British Government, we know, has no dis- 

 position to repudiate the Treaty, and it accepts the 

 Award in good faith, and desires that it should be ac- 

 cepted by the people of Great Britain. It can not be 



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