The "Consequential Claims."

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 143, 6 August 1872, Page 7

The "Consequential Claims."

In a second letter to the New York World, on these claims, Mr Elihn Burr it t remarks : —“The most august transaction originated in the history of nations is the erection of this High Court of Arbitration at Gene\a. It was well worth to the world that England and America should be two that they might be one in this illustrious homage to reason and justice. They have erected a temple to these two powers of truth whose very foundations stand higher than the pinnacles of the highest court of law ever raised on earth. In its attributes, office, and dignity it is the very next tribunal lessening down from the Bar of Infinite Justice. Having raised such a temple for. all nations as well as for themselves ; having hallowed it and haloed it with a dignity almost divine, can either afford to bring to its white throne of impartial justice a ‘ Case’ defiled and dripping with the droppings of Old Bailey or a nisi priu-s court of ‘ Philadelphia lawyers’!” Can this young nation of our love and pride, with the pride and dignitj which two hemispheres offer to its aspiration and reach, afford to lay its ‘ Case’ on that white throne affected by the trickster littleness of a village criminal court I Is this high and holy temple of justice and equity the place for two such nations to play off against each other the small cunning, the legal technicalities and informalities with which some criminal lawyers delight to perplex a jury ? If, by overreaching, outwitting, or by indiscretion, or by the unwariness or lack of lawyer-like astuteness on the part of the British Commissioners, we can get an advantage over England, and sting her people with a sense of humiliation—with a sense of being victimised by the indiscretion of their own agents, or by the sharp practice of ours—will that settlement satisfy us. when this nation sub sides to its normal second, sober thought