It may choose arbitration, or it may choose war; but the American Commissioners flatly refused to let it choose war, and then, after defeat, claim still the right to call in arbitrators and put again at risk before them the verdict of war.
Reid emphasizes the American Commissioners' firm stance against allowing nations to choose war after arbitration.
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