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Minister, Sir Frederic Bruce, as umpire between U5 

 and the United States of Colombia. And at the same 

 period of time, Great Britain accepted Mr. B.R. Curtis, 

 of Massachusetts, as umpire imder the Treaty for set- 

 tling the claims of the Hudson's Bay Comjtany against 

 the United States. And in this case, be it remember- 

 ed, the Commissioners, just men both. Sir John Bose 

 and ^Ir. Alexander S.Johnson, agreed on their award 

 without troubiin;:: ]^Ir. Curtis. 



Under the pr<v-.us claims' Treaty between Great 

 Britain and tlie United States, the two Governments 

 in the fii^st instance agreed on e?*-President Van Buren 

 as umpire, and, on his declining, they chose ]\Ir. Bates, 

 an American Banker residing: in London. 



Under the claims' Treaty between the United States 

 and New Granada, an American, ^Ir. Upham, of Xew 

 Hampshire, was umpire ; and another American, Dr. 

 Francis Lieber, of Xew York, under the recent Treaty 

 between the United States and the ]Mexican Bepublic. 



Strongest of all is the caao of the Treaty between 

 Paraguay and the United States, which submitted 

 their controversy to an .American citizen, ^Ir. Cave 

 Johnson, of Tennessee, as sole arbiter, and he decided 

 aizainst the L' lited States. 



Is it possib t to misapprehend the moral of such 

 facts i In all these various aspects of the subject, do 

 we not perceive the sense of justice tending ever}' 

 day 10 penetrate deeper and deejier into the councils 

 of nations, and the voice of reason, of which interna- 

 tional lav: is the expression, influencing more and 

 more the action of Governments \ 



