184 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



ers were permitted to pervert the privilege of hospi- 

 tality into making a base of operations of Nassau or 

 of Melbourne. The recognized fault in the matter 

 of the Shenamhalt was mainly the augmentation of 

 her crew at Melbourne, and the addition of equip- 

 ments, without w^hich she could not have oj^erated as 

 a cruiser in the North Pacific. In the case of the 

 xllahama, and especially that of the Florida^ the 

 fault was in allowing them to come and go unmolest- 

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

 British Government could no longer pretend to be 

 ignorant of their originally illegal charactei', nay, 

 when it was now fully aware of what Mr. Adams 

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

 hood and perjury," and the "malignant fi-aud," which 

 attended the equipment of the Confederate cruisers 

 in Great Britain. It Avas this class of facts, and not 

 any such secondary consideration as the supply of 

 coal, which turned th^ scale against Great Britain in 

 the opinions of the Arbitrators. 



No: neither the Treaty of Washington, with its 

 Rules, nor the Decision of the Tribunal of Geneva, 

 has inaugurated any new policy of neutrality in the 

 United States, nor created for them any rights or 

 any duties not previously ppssessed by and incum- 

 bent on the Government. 



WHAT THE UNITED STATES HAVE GAINED BY THE AWARD. 



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

 States gained T)y the Treaty of Washington, and by 

 the Arbitration ? 



