84 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 
at Geneva, and who, it was clearly seen, would be the 
effective judges in the cause, were not likely to share 
the English opinion of the common law of England. 
And these three Arbitrators were persons outside of 
the range of the observation, knowledge, or apprecia- 
tion of most Englishmen, who felt undefined distrust 
of men whom they did not and could not know as, 
they knew Englishmen and Americans. Nay, En- 
glishmen were heard to say, in conversation, that they 
would prefer a tribunal made up of Englishmen and 
Americans. We shall fully comprehend how strong 
this sentiment was among average Englishmen, when 
we remember that expression was given to it in the 
House of Lords by the Marquess of Salisbury, who, 
notwithstanding his high intelligence, and the cos- 
mopolitan experience which men of his rank possess, 
could characterize as wnknown, and, therefore, as ob- 
jectionable, an actual Embassador in France, an ex- 
President of Switzerland, and a Senator and ex-Min- 
ister of Italy with fame as a jurist and historian per- 
vading Europe. It was a sentiment which Sir Alex- 
ander Cockburn betrayed in his deportment and 
language at several meetings of the Tribunal. 
These, however, were but the transitory incidents 
of popular emotion and public discussion, and of sec- 
ondary significance. 
AGITATION RESPECTING THE NATIONAL CLAIMS. 
But the agitation which soon followed, on the sub- 
ject of certain of the claims-set forth in the Case of 
the United States, arose at once to national impor: 
