7G Tin: TRKATY OF WASHINGTON. 



bcrs of tlic Tribunal and to tl»c rcprosontatlvos of tlic 

 two Goycrnnicnts ucooss to nunuTous odiclal exhibi- 

 tions and cntiM'taininonts; and, at a suitable time, it 

 made for us a special festival at (leneva, as the Fed- 

 eral (iovei'nmcnt did at Interlaken and at Berne. 



Switzerland, and Geneva esj)(H'ially, looking at tlio 

 several acts of arbiti'ation provided l)y the Treaty of 

 Washington as constituting grert stei)s in tlie jtrog- 

 ress of j)ublie i)eaee, welcomed us the more heartily 

 because of the recent organization there of a society, 

 w]io>e objects are defined by its title of "Comite In- 

 ternational dc Secours aux Militaires Blesses." This 

 society had acquii'ed universal respect by its acts of 

 disinterested i)hilanthrojiy in the late war between 

 Germany and France. Its symbol of the red cross 

 liad been the harbin<:ct;i' of relief to many a suilerinoj 

 victim of battle. It was organized under the Pres- 

 idency of that General Dufour Avho, in 1847, had led 

 to victory the forces of Switzerland against the Seces- 

 sion I Sonderbun<l] Cantons. And men could not fail 

 to note the coincidence, when they saw this great 

 Tril)\nial of Arbitration organized under the ausjMces 

 of the victorious conunander of our own Union forces 

 [General Grant], as the International Commission for 

 tlie Succor of the AVounded had been luuler the 

 auspices of the veteran General Dufour. It ^vas im- 

 pressive to see the greatest Generals of the two coun- 

 tries laboring to diminish the chances and lighten the 

 evils of war. 



The Tribunal of Arbitration occupied the same ball 

 in the Hotel de Ville which had just before been oc- 



