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at his command,—in a word, the whole force of the 
British Government at his back, in which to write 
and print his Argument; while it would have afforded 
to the American Counsel less than four weeks for the 
same task, in which to prepare and print our Argu- 
ment in both languages, with no libraries at hand, no 
translators, no printers, thrown wholly on our per- 
sonal resources away from home in the heart of Eu- 
rope. 
The Counsel of the United States desired no re- 
argument of the cause. We found nothing in the 
British Argument which we had not anticipated and 
disposed of to our own satisfaction. Not that we 
feared reargument: on the contrary, we felt such com- 
plete confidence in our rights as to be sure not to lose, 
and to hope rather to gain, by further discussion. 
Hence we did not desire nor seek reargument, al- 
though perfectly ready for it if called upon in con- 
formity with the Treaty. Our objections were to the 
delay and to the departure from the conditions of the 
Treaty. 
According to the explicit language of the Treaty, 
“the decision of the Tribunal shall, if possible, be 
made within three months from the close of the ar- 
guments on both sides ;” and the prescribed day “for 
the close of the arguments on both sides” is the 15th 
of June. Suppose that, by agreement of the two Gov- 
ernments,—it could not be done by Counsel without 
consent of their Governments,—“ the close of the 
arguments” had been postponed to the 31st of Au- 
gust, as proposed by Sir Roundell Palmer. In that 
