AN INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR 

 EUROPE. 



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It must be generally admitted, that the militarism which 

 exists in Europe, the vast and unnecessary armaments, and 

 the gigantic military expenditure which they involve, the absence of 

 a judicial system of law, and of an International Tribunal to apply 

 it, creates such a state of things as is' not only very barbarous, and 

 burdensome, but hazardous to the lives of a great community, and 

 is indeed a disgrace to the Nineteenth Century. 



The character of a well-governed community, the condition of a 

 well - ordered State, is, where laws, tribunals, and magistrates 

 exist, and the character of a State which has no such judicial 

 system, but in which brute force prevails, as the result 

 inevitably must be, disorder and anarchy ; for what can we expect 

 otherwise, where each nation's passions, jealousies, and ambitions, 

 each nation's right arm, forms the only recognised arbiter for 

 justice and redress ? Imagine a state of Society where men, aye, and 

 women too, are not only allowed, but compelled, in the absence of 

 a judicial system, to fight out their own individual quarrels in the 

 open street, it is self-evident, that from such an interruption to 

 public order, and public business, the common needs would 

 suppress. 



In a civilised community hke England, or the United States of 

 America, by the advancement of civilisation, and by the power of a 

 humane public opinion, duelling is abolished ; it is illegal for 

 individuals to appeal to might rather than right, to brute force 

 rather than even-handed justice, for the settlement of their individual 

 disputes, and the individual so exercising it, not only forfeits the 

 justice he demands, but secures for himself a punishment he did 

 not anticipate. 



