so Tin: TUiCATv or Washington. 



and coiuluoti'd tiie Jelil)Ci'.'itioii8 of tlic Tribunal, and 

 wlio rcprosonted and s])oke for it on ceremonial occa- 

 sions: a man of large stature and dignified presence; 

 of the high breeding of rank, but without pretensivc- 

 ncss; cordial and kindly in social intercourse; tlic 

 impersonation, as it were, of the intellect and the cul- 

 ture of Continental Europe. 



MR. STyEMriLI. 



Sitting by the right hand of Count Sclopis, as next 

 to him in precedence, not by reason of age, — for he 

 -was the youngest mcml)er of the Tribunal, — but as 

 representing the local Cro\x*rnment, Switzerland, was 

 Mr. James |or, in German, Jacob] Sta^mpfli: a genu- 

 ine represen^1tive of democratic institutions, — sprung 

 from the people, — the son of his own works, — clear- 

 headed, strong-minded, firm-hearted, — somewhat posi- 

 tive, — not prone to talk except when talk Avas of the 

 essence of things, and then briefly and to the point, — 

 in a word, a man of the very stuff out of Avhich to 

 make Presidents of Federal Republics. 



]\Ir. StaMuplll is a German Swiss of the Canton of 

 Berne, who has risen from the humblest to the highest 

 condition m his country by mere force of intellect and 

 indomitable will. Born in 1820, admitted to the Bar 

 in 18 b^, he came forward at once as an advocate, and 

 as a journalist of radical opinions, and sj)eedily at- 

 taincil distinction. In ISK) we fmd him a conspicu- 

 ous member of the Council of State, directing tho 

 finances, and laboring to organize a central military 

 force. In 1847 he represented the Canton of Bcrno 



