RELATING TO

THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON.

172004 VOLUME I-GENEVA ARBITRATION.

CONTAINING THE CASE OF THE UNITED STATES; THE CASE OF GREAT
BRITAIN; THE COUNTER CASE OF THE UNITED STATES; AND
A PORTION OF THE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS, COR-
RESPONDENCE, AND EVIDENCE WHICH
ACCOMPANIED THE SAME.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Page.

Case of the United States laid before the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva....

I. Introduction to

II. Unfriendly course pursued by Great Britain toward the United States from

the outbreak to the close of the Insurrection..................

III. The duties which Great Britain as a neutral should have observed toward

the United States......

IV. Wherein Great Britain failed to perform its duties as a neutral................

V. Wherein Great Britain failed to perform its duties as a neutral. The In-

surgent cruisers.....

VI. The Tribunal should award a sum in gross to the United States.....

Case presented on the part of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty to the

Tribunal.......

I. Statement of the matter referred to the Arbitrators as it is understood by

the Government of Her Britannic Majesty.

II. Statement of events which attended and followed the commencement of

the civil war, and of the course pursued in relation to it by Great Brit-

ain and other Maritime Powers....

III. Statement on International Rights and Duties; on the powers which

were possessed by Her Britannic Majesty's Government of preventing

unlawful equipments, and the manner and circumstances in and under

which these powers were exercised during the war.

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47

89

125

185

205

207

211

236

IV. Considerations proper to be kept in view by the Arbitrators in reference

to the cases of the Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Shenandoah........ 272

Counter Case of the United States presented to the Tribunal.......

415

Additional documents, correspondence, and evidence accompanying Counter

Case of the United States....

443

Correspondence relative to the monitors Catawba and Oneota at New Orleans 714

Correspondence relative to the Florida at Philadelphia.......

725

Correspondence relative to the Spanish gun-boats at New York.

732

Cuban correspondence, 1866–1871...........

759

Correspondence relative to the Hornet.

827