146 THE TREATY OF WASIIINGTON. 
agreeable to the British Government to have all the 
old debate reopened by the Chief Justice—to have 
the Treaty, its Rules, the Arbitration, and the Award, 
made by him the subject of profuse denunciation,—to 
have an arsenal of weapons, good, bad, or indifferent, 
collected by him for the use of the Opposition in Par. 
liament. . 
Nor can it be agreeable to see the Arbitrator they 
had appointed demean himself so fantastically, and, 
as the English Press is constrained to admit, in a 
manner so painfully in contrast with the dignity and 
judicial impartiality of the American Arbitrator. 
The Chancellor of the Exchequer [Mr. Lowe] gave 
utterance to these sentiments of grief and regret in a 
speech at Glasgow on the 26th of September, as fol- 
lows: 
“T conceive our duty to be to obey the Award, and to pay 
whatever is assessed against us without cavil. or comment of 
any kind. [Cheers.] Iam happy to say that such is the opin- 
ion of my learned friend, the Lord Chief Justice. But I must 
say, with the greatest submission to my learned friend, that I 
wish his practice had accorded a little more accurately with 
his theory. He has advised us to submit, as I advise you to 
submit, to the Award, and not only to pay the money, hut to 
forego for once the national habit of grumbling—[laughter]— 
and to consider that we are bound in honor to do what we are 
told, and that, having once put the thing out of our power in 
the honor able and the high-minded way in which the nation 
has done, the only way in which we should treat it is simply 
to obey the Award, and to abstain from any comment whatever 
as to what the Arbitrators have done.. [Cheers.] But, if my 
learned friend the Lord Chief Justice thought so,I can only 
very: much regret that he did not take the course of simply 
signing the Aw vard with the other Arbitrators, it being perfectly 
