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the magnitude of its territory, the greatness of its re- 



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sources, its military strength and successes, its enlight 

 ened and reforming chief ruler, the substantial liber 

 ality of its political institutions, and the unbroken 

 domestic tranquillity of its independent life, so strik 

 ingly in contrast with the revolutionary agitations of 

 most of the Spanish-American Republics. 



Marcos Antonio d Araujo belongs to that numer 

 ous body of jurists and statesmen, the natural growth 

 of parliamentary institutions based on popular elec 

 tion, who do honor at the present time to Brazil. He 

 filled in early life the chair of Professor of Jurispru 

 dence in the University of Pernambuco. His first 

 diplomatic appointment was that of Consul-General 

 of Brazil in the Hanse Towns, with residence at Ham 

 burg. After that he held successively the offices of 

 Minister or Envoy at Hanover, at Copenhagen, at 

 Berlin, and finally at Paris. At the time of his ap 

 pointment as Arbitrator he was Envoy Extraordi 

 nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil in France, 

 by the title of Baron d ltajuba, and he was made a 

 Viscount during the progress of the Arbitration. . 



With exception, therefore, of the judicial studies 

 and occupations of his youth, the Viscount of Itajuba 

 is a diplomatist, having passed nearly forty years of 

 his life in the discharge of diplomatic functions in 

 different countries of Europe. He possesses all the r 

 qualities of his career and station, namely, courteous \ 

 and attractive manners, intelligence disciplined by long 

 experience of men and affairs, instinctive appreciation \ 

 of principles and facts, and the ready expression of 



