There is no obligation resting upon any nation. under infernational law. in the absence of a treaty so requiring. to surrender to another a person accused by the latter of any offense. much less a political offense. It follows that no nation has the right to require that another deliver up a fugitive from justice. The one having no right to require the surrender and the other being under no obligation to surrender. there can be no offense in the refusal of the Government of the country iii which the refugee has sought asylum to surrender him. Upon considerations of comity fugitives have been not infrequently surrendered by one nation to another. mid statesmen and jurists have argued with much force and reason that the practice of so doing should have the sanction of international law save as to political offenders. but the principle for which they contend has never been recognized In this country or in Great Britain nor elsewhere to any important degree among the family of nations. Mr.