...nsideration that the dishonoring of the treaty, as he called it, at that stage would involve a serious responsibility. But he was very careful to confine this obiter dictum to the case in hand; and Miss Seward very deftly, as well as abruptly, cuts short her quotation from his speech when she reaches his emphatic exclusion of all other treaties from any implied sanction. He went on to say that had the Se...