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Tribunal, or printed for the information of Agents 
and Counsel, as a resolution of the Tribunal, adopted 
on his own motion, required,—he presents this Argu- 
ment as his “Reasons . . . for dissenting from the 
Decision of the Tribunal of Arbitration.” The title 
of the document is a false pretense, as we shall con- 
clusively show in due time: the act was a dishonor- 
able imposition on the Tribunal, and on doth Gov- 
ernments, Great Britain as much as the United 
States. ; 
In point of fact, the document filed by Sir Alexan- 
der was in large part of such a character that, if it 
had been offered for filing at any proper time, and 
with opportunity to persons concerned to become ac- 
quainted with its contents, it must [as declared by 
the Secretary of State of the United States in his dis- 
patch to the American Agent of October 22, 1872] 
have been the plain duty of the American Agent 
to object to its reception, and of the Tribunal to re- 
fuse it, as calculated and designed to weaken the just 
authority of the Arbitrators, as insulting to the United 
States in the tenor of much of its contents, and as in- 
jurious to Great Britain by its tendency to raise up 
obstacles to the acceptance of the Award, and to pro- 
duce alienation between the two Governments. 
The document consisted, in part, of the opinions of 
Sir Alexander Cockburn on the several vessels, copies 
of which he ought to have delivered in print to the 
Agent and Counsel of the United States, in conform- 
ity with his awn resolution, but which he failed to 
do, thus depriving the American Government of ad- 
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