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among themselves, should they unhappily arise, will be handled by 

 patient, impartial investigation, and settled by arbitration; and the 

 agreement necessary to the peace of the Americas, that no State of either 

 continent will permit revolutionary expeditions against another State to 

 be fitted out on its territory, and that they will prohibit the exportation 

 of the munitions of war for the purpose of supplying revolutionists against 

 neighboring Governments. 



You see what our thought is, gentlemen, not only the international 

 peace of America, but the domestic peace of America. If American 

 States are constantly in ferment, if any of them are constantly in ferment, 

 there will be a standing threat to their relations with one another. It is 

 just as much to our interest to assist eaCh other to the orderly processes 

 within our own borders as it is to orderly processes in our controversies 

 with one another. These are very practical suggestions which have 

 sprung up in the minds of thoughtful men, and I, for my part, beHeve 

 that they are going to lead the way to something that America has 

 prayed for for many a generation. For they are based, in the first place, 

 so far as the stronger States are concerned, upon the handsome principle 

 of self-restraint and respect for the rights of everybody. They are based 

 upon the principles of absolute political equality among the States, 

 equality of right, not equality of indulgence. They are based, in short, 

 upon the solid eternal foundations of justice and humanity. No man 

 can turn away from these things without turning away from the hope of 

 the world. These are things, ladies and gentlemen, for which the world 

 has hoped and waited with prayerful heart. God grant that it may be 

 granted to America to lift this light on high for the illumination of the 

 world. 



