Foreign Relations of the United States Volume 2, V. 2.cUnited States Dept of State
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Author: United States Dept of State
Number of Pages: 610 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231225837
File size: 21 Mb
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...accepted what had fallen from his honorable and learned friend without deduction any more than without addition when he showed that the principles embodied in the first'of the rules in the treaty of Washington were the very principles for which the executive of this country contended in our courts, and therefore it was not too much for the American Government to expect that the British should be prepared to act upon them in ultimately settling the controversy with regard to the Alabama question. No doubt a great concession had been made to America, but that concession had lain in this, that we had consented to go to arbitration as to our conduct in the administration of our own municipal law. That, undoubtedly, might be called stretching, somewhat, at least, the measure of strict necessity in respect to the fulfillment of international duties; but was there anything unreasonable in that principle f It was conducive to peace. He did not see that it involved disparagement to honor. As far ae regarded the specifications contained in those rules, his honorable and learned friend had shown that they had added nothing to the claim which the American Government was already able to establish against them out of their own mouths, while they had obtained the basis of that most important understanding and covenant between tho two countries for the regulation of the future which ho trusted would ultimately harden and widen into an extension of international law for the benefit of the world. There had been in some minds a supposition that that arbitration was a phantasm conjured up by them to cover, with decent forms, a foregone conclusion. On the part of Her Majesty's government he begged most emphatically to disclaim any such idea or intention that arbitration would b...
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