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NOTE.

The figures in brackets in the text indicate the pages of the edition which was laid before the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva; the * indicates the word with which each page commences.

Inauguration of Mr. Lincoln...

What the United States will attempt to establish
Evidence and documents, and how referred to.....

II. THE UNFRIENDLY COURSE PURSUED BY GREAT BRITAIN TOWARD THE

UNITED STATES FROM THE OUTBREAK TO THE CLOSE OF THE INSURREC-

TION.

Relations of the United States with Great Britain prior to 1860

Friendly relations of the two Governments in 1860..

The United States in 1860...

Election of Mr. Lincoln..

Secession of South Carolina.

Secession of Alabama...

Secession of Georgia and other States

Opposition to the territorial limitation of slavery the cause of seces-

sion

A party in the South opposed to secession.

The British government informed of his purposes..

30

Lord John Russell promises to await Mr. Adams's arrival before acting.

The surrender of Fort Sumter....

When the President's proclamation was received in Great Britain.

Opinion of law officers taken on an imperfect copy..

Her Majesty's government decide on the first of May to recognize a

state of war

Lord John Russell and the insurgent commissioners discuss the recog-
nition of southern independence....

51 26

Communication with the French government..

52 27

Answers of the French government..

53 27

When the President's proclamation was received by Great Britain...

54 27

The sovereign right to issue such a proclamation not denied.

It was an unfriendly act..

62 30

The instructions to Lord Lyons might have been regarded as a cause
of war..

II. THE UNFRIENDLY COURSE PURSUED BY GREAT BRITAIN TOWARD THE

UNITED STATES FROM THE OUTBREAK TO THE CLOSE OF THE INSURREC-

TION-Continued.

And issued with an unfriendly purpose.

M. Rolin-Jacquemyns on the Queen's proclamation..........

Unfriendly conduct of Great Britain as to the declarations of the con-

gress of Paris....

Geneva Second

edition. edition.

Former negotiations regarding the declarations of the congress of

Paris

Contrast between conduct of Great Britain toward the United States

in the Trent affair, and toward violators of British neutrality in the
insurgent interest

82 38

M. Rolin-Jacquemyns on British neutrality

86 40

Proof of the unfriendly feeling of members of the British cabinet and

Parliament

87 40

Conclusions

100 45

III. THE DUTIES WHICH GREAT BRITAIN, AS A NEUTRAL, SHOULD HAVE

OBSERVED TOWARD THE UNITED STATES.

The Queen's proclamation a recognition of obligations under the law

of nations.

Great Britain has recognized its obligations in various ways..

The obligations recognized by the foreign enlistment act of 1819.....

Municipal laws designed to aid a government in the performance of

international duties.

History of the foreign enlistment act of 1819.

Great Britain bound to perform the duties recognized by that act....

The duties recognized by that act.....

109 48

Royal commission to revise the foreign enlistment act of 1819

Report of that commission

International law is a part of the common law of England..

118 52

Duties recognized by the Queen's proclamation of neutrality

Definition of neutrality

122 53

123 54

Duties recognized by instructions to British officials during the insur-

rection

125

Correspondence between the two governments in 1793-'94.

Treaty of November 19, 1794.....

126

131

Construction of that treaty by the commissioners appointed under it.

The neutrality laws of the United States enacted at the request of

Great Britain

132 57

55

57

III. THE DUTIES WHICH GREAT BRITAIN, AS A NEUTRAL, SHOULD HAVE

OBSERVED TOWARD THE UNITED STATES-Continued.

Correspondence between the United States and Portugal.

Principles recognized in that correspondence

Rules in the treaty of Washington

What is due diligence

Geneva Second

edition. edition.

Page. Page.

137 59

146 63

148 63

150 64

Fitting out, arming, or equipping, each an offense

159 68

Duty to detain offending vessels recognized by Great Britain...

163 69

The foregoing views in harmony with the opinions of European pub-

The principle recognized by France, Great Britain, Spain, Portugal,

IV. WHEREIN GREAT BRITAIN FAILED TO PERFORM ITS DUTIES AS A

NEUTRAL.

Admissions of British cabinet ministers..

British ports the base of insurgent operations; a partial hospitality

shown to the insurgents; a branch of their government established

in Liverpool; their government vessels officially aided in evading

the blockade, and in furnishing them with arms, munitions, and

means for carrying on the struggle.

The firm of Fraser, Trenholm & Co..

Character of the blockaded coast

Geographical situation of Nassau and Bermuda.

What was done at Nassau

The United States denied permission to deposit coal at Nassau.......

Complaints to Earl Russell and his reply ...

Instructions as to hospitalities to the belligerents....

IV. WHEREIN GREAT BRITAIN FAILED TO PERFORM ITS DUTIES AS A

NEUTRAL

Continued.

Lord Palmerston's threats

Geneva Second

edition. edition.

Page. Page.

234 96

Contraband of war fraudulently cleared at Nassau for British ports.. 236
Résumé for the year 1862.

97

237

97

Mr. Adams represents the foregoing facts to Earl Russell....

248 101

These proceedings were an abandonment, in advance, of "due dili-

The rulings in the Alexandra case emasculated the foreign enlistment

act......

259 106

Laird's iron-clad rams...

260 106

Their detention not an abandonment of the lax construction of the

duties of a neutral............

264 108

The contracts with Arman for the construction of vessels in France.. 266 108

Conduct of the French Government....

267 109

Contrast between the conduct of France and of Great Britain...

269 109

The Tuscaloosa at the Cape of Good Hope.................

270 110

She is released against the advice of Sir Baldwin Walker..

272 110

The course of the governor is disapproved............

272 111

The Tuscaloosa comes again into the waters of the Colony..

Blockade-running in partnership with the insurgent government.... 286 116

274 111

274 111

275 112

278 113

These facts brought to Earl Russell's notice..

He sees no offense in them....

Mr. Mountague Bernard's list of vessels detained by Great Britain...
The charges in Mr. Fish's instructions of September 25, 1869, are sus-
tained by this evidence......

296 120

300 121

282 114

282 114

284 115

285 115