before the expiration of one year from the date of their first meeting, the amount of claims decided by them up to the date of such report; if further report at or before the expiration of two years from the date of such first meeting; and in case any claims remain undetermined

"Well roared, Lion!" and "Well shone, Moon!"

SECRETARY FISH AND GENERAL GRANT AMUSED AT THE ENGLISH OUTCRY OVER THE ALABAMA CLAIMS

(From a cartoon by Thomas Nast, published at the time in Harper's Weekly)

at that time, they shall make a final report within a further period of six months.

The report or reports shall be made in duplicate, and one copy thereof shall be delivered to the Secretary of State of the United States, and one copy thereof to the Representative of Her Britannic Majesty at Washington.

All sums of money which may be awarded under this article shall be payable at Washington, in coin, within twelve months after the delivery of each report.

The board of Assessors may employ such clerks as they shall think necessary.

The expenses of the board of Assessors shall be borne equally by the two Governments, and paid from time to time, as may be found expedient, on the production of accounts certified by the board. The remuneration. of the Assessors shall also be paid by the two Governments in equal moieties in a similar manner.

ARTICLE XI

The high contracting parties engage to consider the result of the proceedings of the tribunals of arbitration and of the board of Assessors should such board be ap-pointed, as a full, perfect, final settlement of all the claims herein before referred to, and further engage that every such claim, whether the same may or may not have been presented to the notice of, made, preferred, or laid before the tribunal or board, shall, from and after the conclusion of the proceedings of the tribunal or board, be considered and treated as finally settled, barred, and thenceforth inadmissible.

LIBERAL REPUBLICAN PLATFORM, 1872

A national convention of the newly formed Liberal Republican party was held in Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 1, 1872, with United States Senator Carl Schurz, of Missouri, as permanent chairman. The convention nominated Horace Greeley, of New York, for President on the sixth ballot. His principal competitor for the honor was Charles Francis Adams, of Massachusetts, who received eight votes less than Mr. Greeley. The following resolutions were adopted as the party platform. Text from "Proceedings of the Liberal Republican Convention, in Cincinnati, May 1-3, 1872.' New York: Baker & Godwin, 1872, pp. 19-21. (See page 84.)

We, the Liberal Republicans of the United States, in National Convention assembled at Cincinnati, proclaim the following principles as essential to just government:

1. We recognize the equality of all men before the law, and hold that it is the duty of Government, in its dealings with the people, to mete out equal and exact justice to all, of whatever nativity, race, color, or persuasion, religious or political.

2. We pledge ourselves to maintain the union of these States, emancipation and enfranchisement, and to oppose any reopening of the questions settled by the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution.

3. We demand the immediate and absolute removal of

(From the original Brady negative now in possession of Frederick H. Meserve, New York City. At this time he was a frequent visitor to the White House. He emigrated to the United States in 1852, where from the very first he took a prominent part in political campaigns. He was a delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1860, and during the campaign for Lincoln he made a great many speeches both in English and German. He served in the Civil War as brigadier-general in 1862, and in 1863 he was commissioned major-general. In 1865-66 he was Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune)

all disabilities imposed on account of the rebellion, which was finally subdued seven years ago, believing that universal amnesty will result in complete pacification in all sections of the country.

4. Local self-government, with impartial suffrage, will guard the rights of all citizens more securely than any centralized power. The public welfare requires the supremacy of the civil over the military authority, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus. We demand for the individual the largest liberty consistent with public order, for the State selfgovernment, and for the nation a return to the methods of peace and the constitutional limitations of power.

5. The civil service of the Government has become a mere instrument of partisan tyranny and personal ambition, and an object of selfish greed. It is a scandal and reproach upon free institutions, and breeds a demoralization dangerous to the perpetuity of republican government. We therefore regard such thorough reforms of the civil service as one of the most pressing necessities of the hour; that honesty, capacity, and fidelity, constitute the only valid claims to public employment; that the offices of the Government cease to be a matter of arbitrary favoritism and patronage, and that public station become again a post of honor. To this end it is imperatively required that no President shall be a candidate for re-election.

6. We demand a system of Federal taxation which shall not unnecessarily interfere with the industry of the people, and which shall provide the means necessary to pay the expenses of the Government, economically administered, the pensions, the interest on the public debt, and a moderate reduction annually of the principal thereof; and, recognizing that there are in our midst honest but irreconcilable differences of opinion with regard to the respective systems of protection and free trade, we remit the discussion of the subject to the