202 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



ment of a lawfully constituted international tribunal, 

 sucli as the present Commission. 



Citizens of the United States are not slow to in- 

 volve the intervention of their Government in behalf 

 of any American injured in the progress of civil war 

 in other countries, and on such occasions to talk loud- 

 ly of " outrages to citizens :" let us do as we would 

 be done by, and concede that Great Britain is entitled 

 to judicial examination of the cases of her subjects 

 alleging injuiy by the occurrences of civil war in the 

 United States. 



