ALABAMA CLAIMS. 185 
We have gained the vindication of our rights as 
a Government; the redress of the wrong done to our 
citizens; the political prestige, in Europe.and Amer- 
ica, of the enforcement of our rights against the most 
powerful State of Christendom; the elevation of 
maxims of right and of justice into the judgment-seat 
of the world; the recognition of our theory and poli- 
cy of neutrality by Great Britain; the honorable con- 
clusion of a long-standing controversy and the ex- 
tinction of a cause of war between Great Britain and 
the United States; and the moral authority of hav- 
ing accomplished these great objects without war, by 
peaceful means, by appeals to conscience and to rea- 
son, through the arbitrament of a high international 
Tribunal. 
That war, the great curse and scourge of mankind, 
will utterly cease because of the present successful 
instance of international arbitration, nobody pretends. 
Questions of national ambition or national resent- 
ment,—conflicts of dynastic interest,—schemes of ter- 
ritorial aggrandizement,—nay, deeper causes, resting 
in superabundant population or other internal facts 
of malaise, misery and discontent,—will continue to 
produce wars to the end of time. 
“Non, sans doute,” says M. de Mazade,—speaking of the 
acts of the Tribunal,—“la guerre n’est point bannie de ce 
monde, elle n’est pas remplacée par un tribunal de concilia- 
tion faisant rentrer au fourreau les épées impatientes d’en sor- 
tir: ce n’est pas moins un événement caractéristique et heu- 
reux que le succés de ce tribunal d’équité, de cette sorte de jus- 
tice internationale.” . .. 
We, Great Britain and the United States, have in 
