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I be allowed to suggest that it will be better to recommend that 

 Treaties be entered into for the express purpose of binding the 

 contracting nations to submit their future quarrels to the decision 

 of Arbitrators. I do not think that it would be easy to find an 

 object more worthy of a separate Treaty than that which is con- 

 templated in the clause." — Vide "Life of Joseph Sturge," by Henry 

 Richard, M.P. 



LORD JOHN RUSSELL, 1 849. 



" On looking at all the wars which have been carried on during 

 the last century, and examining into the causes of them, I do not 

 see one of these wars in which, if there had been proper temper 

 between the parties, the questions in dispute might not have been 

 settled without recourse to arms." — Speech in Parliament. 



JOHN BRIGHT, 1853. 



" I believe there are men in the United States to whom alone — 

 as I believe there are men in this country to whom alone — both 

 countries might commit the decision upon a question affecting both 

 countries; and I believe it would be decided according to that 

 which was just to both of them. And there are other countries, — 

 Russians, French, Prussians, Germans, — in fact, you have all the 

 world to choose from, — you have all your great judges and great 

 jurists, your excellent men of every class in every country ; and 

 from these, every nation, having such an arrangement as this, might 

 choose the men of foremost mark in the world, who, for intellect 

 and for moral qualities are unsurpassed ; and who would stake their 

 whole character with their countrymen, and with all posterity, that 

 they give a just decision on the matter referred to them." — Speech 

 at Manchester. 



LORD CLARENDON, 1865. 



" I fully concur in this opinion, that it is desirable to have 

 recourse to Arbitration, wherever practicable, for the adjustment of 

 international differences, and am glad to believe that the principle 

 of arbitration is becoming recognised as the most honourable and 

 equitable solution of many difficult and important questions." — 

 , Speech to Deputation. 



EARL OF DERBY, 1867. 



" Unhappily there is no International Tribunal to which cases of 

 this kind can be referred, and there is no Intefrnational Law by 

 which parties can be required to refer cases of this kind. If such a 



