. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . BRITAIN-AMERICAN COMPLICATION. 387 The outrage of such a proceeding was a stenchin the nostrils of the nations. The conse-•quences entailed thereby have been in the history of our own may suffice, in this connection, to remarkupon the wisdom of Liucoln, and the good?fortune of the United States in having at thecourt of St. J
. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . BRITAIN-AMERICAN COMPLICATION. 387 The outrage of such a proceeding was a stenchin the nostrils of the nations. The conse-•quences entailed thereby have been in the history of our own may suffice, in this connection, to remarkupon the wisdom of Liucoln, and the good?fortune of the United States in having at thecourt of St. Jdmes, in these days, that magnifi-?cent exemplar of American diplomacy, CharlesFrancis Adams. His steadiness in the dark•day of trial, his equanimity and firmness, his other Adams, as diplomatist or statesman, iaworthy of a higher rank than he. It may not be deemed inappropriate todepart from the chronological order of eventsin order to follow the sequel of the cruise ofthe Alabama, and of the connection of GreatBritain therewith. An account has been pre-sented, in a former chapter, of the Treaty ofWashington, of May, 1871, and of the pro-vision made therein for a Court of Arbitration,to be convened in December of the same GENEVA, ?clear insight of the situation, his constantremonstrances with Great Britain, his patienceunder her continued policy of wrong-doing,and his final declaration and protest to LordJohn Russell, when the two Confederate ramswere about to put to sea, that this is war,with the full warning that he then gave to theBritish Government that the consequences ofrail this flagrant injustice must, in the natureof things, be treasured up unto a day ofsettlement,—must ever bear witness to the•common opinion of his countrymen that no at Geneva, Switzerland, for the purpose ofdetermining the validity ()r invalidity of theclaims of the American Government againstGreat Britain, for the destruction of the com-merce of the United States by the
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