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gi^eat countries, the first important consecration, — absolutely the first 

 consecration, as far as I know, in connection with burning questions 

 that might have led to the last difficulty, — of the great principle that 

 nations, like men, are bad judges of their own quarrels. I beheve 

 that in that Treaty may be found principles which, if I do not 

 deceive myself, are likely to have a large influence in the cause of 

 the greatest of earthly blessings — the cause of peace." — Speech at 

 New York. 



THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P. 



(First Minister of the Crown), 1873. 

 " In our view, whether the judgment is a right or accurate judg-. 

 ment, or whether some considerations may not have been pressed 

 against us beyond what exactitude would warrant — that, in our 

 view, is a very small matter. It is a small matter compared with 

 the value of the goodwill and the improved and peaceful relations 

 subsisting, and, happily, likely to subsist, between this country and 

 America. Sir, it is a great happiness to see this serious and 

 menancing cause of alienation and estrangement, if not of war, 

 removed by a great International arrangement. Any amount of 

 disappointment we may feel at the result is but an inconsiderable 

 deduction from the satisfaction attendant upon an arrangement 

 whjch removes such causes of difference between two great countries 

 like England and America, and does so much, as I contend, for 

 mankind at large, by the example it sets up of a peaceful settlement 

 of disputes as a substitute for the bloody arbitrament of war." — 

 Speech in Parliament. 



COUNT SCLOPIS. 



(President of the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration), 1873. 



" No one is more convinced than I am of the importance, the 

 utility, and the seasonableness of the formation of a code of public 

 International Law. This would be so much gained for justice and 

 peace. All wise and enlightened publicists, and good men in 

 general, are of this opinion. 



" That which appears to me to be the best mode of procedure for 

 the present is, that some gentlemen, specially authorised, should 

 raise their voices in the British Parliament, the United States Con- 

 gress, and the French National Assembly, in order to propose the 

 Assembly of a Congress for the desired object. Allow me, however, 

 to press upon you, before all things, to raise proposals in the 



