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Minister, Sir Frederic Bruce, as umpire between us 
and the United States of Colombia. And at the same 
period of time, Great Britain accepted Mr. B.R. Curtis, 
of Massachusetts, as umpire under the Treaty for set- 
tling the claims of the Hudson’s Bay Company against 
the United States. And in this case, be it remember- 
ed, the Commissioners, just men boik, Sir John Rose 
and Mr. Alexander S. Johnson, agreed on their award 
‘without troubling Mr. Curtis. 
Under the previous claims’ Treaty between Great 
Britain and the United States, the two Governments 
in the first instance agreed on ex-President Van Buren 
as umpire, and, on his declining, they chose Mr. Bates, 
an American Banker residing in London. 
Under the claims’ Treaty between the United States 
and New Granada, an American, Mr. Upham, of New 
Hampshire, was umpire; and another American, Dr. 
Francis Lieber, of New York, under the recent Treaty 
between the United States and the Mexican Republic. 
Strongest of all is the case of the Treaty between 
Paraguay and the United States, which submitted 
their controversy to an American citizen, Mr. Cave 
Johnson, of Tennessee, as sole arbiter, and he decided 
against the United States. 
Is it possible to misapprehend the moral of such 
facts? In all these various aspects of the subject, do 
we not perceive the sense of justice tending every 
day to penetrate deeper and deeper into the councils 
of nations, and the voice of reason, of which interna- 
tional Jaw is the expression, influencing more and 
more the action of Governments ? 
