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addressing the Tribunal of Arbitration. And it is 
the negation of all these great principles of “justice,” 
“equity,” or “conscience,” which pervades the “ Rea- 
sons” of Sir Alexander Cockburn: in reflecting on 
which, the mind irresistibly reverts to that same line 
of reasoning which astonished the world in his par- 
liamentary advocacy of David Pacifico. 
And now, who is injured by Sir Alexander’s acri- 
monious arraignment of the United States in the last 
hour of the Arbitration? It does not successfully 
maintain the honor of the British Ministers; for it 
recognizes their failure to exercise due diligence, 
whether tried by the Treaty Rules, by the law of na- 
tions, or by the Act of Parliament. Does it influence 
the action of the Tribunal? No: that was consum- 
mated already. Does it injure the American Govern- 
ment, its Agent and Counsel? No: so far as regards 
us, it does but prove that the American Agent and 
Counsel have done their duty regardless of the vin- 
dictive ill-will of the British Arbitrator, and that the 
United States have been successful to such a degree 
as to throw the Chief Justice of England into ecstasies 
of spitéful rage, in which he strikes out wildly against. 
friend and foe alike, but chiefly against his own Gov- 
ernment, in his desultory criticism as well of the 
Treaty of Washington as of the judgment of the Tri- 
bunal of Arbitration. 
For the British Government, we know, has no dis- 
position to repudiate the Treaty, and it accepts the 
Award in good faith, and desires that it should be ac- 
cepted by the people of Great Britain. It can not be 
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