78 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



to the interests of liiimanity, resisting all temptations 

 of vulgar ambition, had magnanimously and coura- 

 geously traversed in peace the difficulties which had 

 divided them both before and since the conclusion of 

 the Treaty. He quoted approvingly the opinion ex- 

 pressed by Mr. Gladstone, on the one hand, and by 

 President Washington, on the other, in commendation 

 of the policy of peace, of justice, and of honor in the 

 conduct of nations. And he proclaimed in behalf of 

 his colleagues, as well as of himself, the purpose of 

 the Tribunal, acting sometimes wdth the large percep- 

 tion of statesmen, sometimes with the scrutinizing eye 

 of judges, and always with a profound sentiment of 

 equity and with absolute impartiality, thus to dis- 

 charge its high duty of pacification as well as of jus- 

 tice to the two Governments. 



The discourse w\as worthy of the occasion and of 

 the man. 



Count Frederic Sclopis of Salerano, Minister of 

 State and Senator of the new Kingdom of Italy, has 

 attained the ripe age of seventy-four years in the as- 

 siduous cultivation of letters, and in the discharge of 

 the highest political and judicial functions. The 

 countryman and the friend of Count Cavoui', it was 

 his fortune to co-operate in the task of the unification 

 of Italy under the leadership of the House of Savoy. 



This great military House, with its enterprising, 

 ambitious, and politic instincts, second in fortune only 

 to the Ilabsburgs and the Zollerns, rose in the elev- 

 enth century, on the ruins of the Burgundians,-to the 

 possession of the passes of the Valaisian, Cottian, and 



