Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-02-29
The " English Case.o

TIE following is synopsis, as received
by cable on the 10th, Of the English case
submitted to the Geneva Tribunal The
document is divided into ten parts:
Part 1 remarks that no definite or COM
plete statement of American claims has
ever been furnished. The Treaty of
Washington and previous correspondence
will supply, however, a general defini-
ton of the demands made by the United
States. Rule 2 of Article 6 of the Trea-
ty of Washington is quoted as follows /;
e A neutral Government is bound not to
permit or suffer either belligerent to make
use of its ports or waters as a base of
naval operations against the other, or for
the purpose of a renewal or augmenta-
ton of military supplies, or arms, or re-
cruitment of men," This rule is inter
preted as prohibiting the supply
ports, but is not prohfbitory of the sale
of arms or munitions of war in the or
dinary course of commerce. The claims
submitted are for damages growing out
of acts of vessels respecting which the
United States allege that Great Britain
failed in her international duty. The
Tribunal must determine the question of
failure of duty. If it decides that there
has been such failure, then it must award
gross sum for damages, or define the
liability for the guide of the assessors of
said damages. The circumstances of the
sailing of the steamers Alabama, Florida,
Georgia and Shenandoah were materially
dissimilar, but Great Britain maintains
that in respect to none of them has she
failed of her international obligations or
rendered herself justly Liable. -s7...
Part 2 gives history of the civil war
int H. TT,.,4 4aI
course of England and the maritime pow
ers was of a vigilant and scrupulous nCu-
trality. .4
Part 3 makes a statement of interna-
tional rights and duties, of the laws of
England bearing thereon, and of the
faithful performance and execution there
OF by Great Britain during the war 1t
also gives detailed account of the ac-
ton of Minister Adams and Earl Russel,
to prevent the departure of rebel cruis-
ers.
Part shows the limits of the powers
possessed by the British Government to
prevent such departures.
Parts 5, 6, and 8, respectively, present
in detail facts relative to the steamers
Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Shenan-
doah.
Part 8 sets forth that the steamers
Georgia and Shenandoah were never
equipped for war in the British Domfn-
ions. Her Majesty's Government was
only informed respecting these vessels
after their departure. The Alabama and
Florida, even, did not receive their arma-
ments in British waters. The peculiar
circumstances of the Alabama's escape
are recited, and England's vigilant en-
deavor to prevent her sailing, as well as
Americas failure in the attempt to cap
ture her, are insisted on. ,
Part 10 complains of the disadvantage
under which Great Britain labors in meet
ing an unpresented case.
The document concludes as follows:
"While England regrets the departure
of rebel cruisers from her ports, she can
not acknowledge the justice of the claims
against her for pecuniary damages for
their acts. The United States must solid
ly establish the facts of Englands negli-
gence. England is ready to accept the
award of the Tribunal of Arbitration,
whether favorable or unfavorable She
desires only that it shall be just"
1t appears from official documents
that the number of steamers on the At
lantic coast inspected in 1871 was L. 410.
The value of property destroyed by fire,
explosion, collision and wreck, was ST.
324, 900; lives lost, 319; number of steam
ers inspected in water flowing into the
Gulf of Mexico, LORI; property destroy
ed, S1,414,00O; lives lost. 695. Number
of steamers inspected on the lakes, $40;
property destroyed, 1896, 600; lives lost,
235. Number of steamers inspected on
the Pacific coast, 1870; lives lost, 2O6. No
statement of property destroyed r.
DR. DANIEL TooKE gives reasons for
believing that thought strongly directed
to any part tends to increase its vascular
ity and sensibility that thought strongly
directed away from any part lessons its
sensibility, and that there is no sensation,
whether general or special, excited by
agents acting upon the body from with
out which cannot also be excited from
within by cerebral changes affecting the
sensory ganglia.
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