Concord, Volumes 8-12

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International Arbitration and Peace Association., 1893
 

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Page 92 - Whereupon, the Plenipotentiaries do not hesitate to express, in the name of their Governments, the wish that States, between which any serious misunderstanding may arise, should, before appealing to arms, have recourse, as far as circumstances might allow, to the good offices of a friendly Power.
Page 125 - That the President be and is hereby requested to invite from time to time, as fit occasions may arise, negotiations with any government with which the United States has or may have diplomatic relations, to the end that any differences or disputes arising between the two governments which cannot be adjusted by diplomatic agency may be referred to arbitration, and be peaceably adjusted by such means.
Page 138 - There they stood in the failing light, These men of battle, with grave, dark looks, As plain to be read as open books, While slowly gathered the shades of night. The fern on the...
Page 124 - It affords me signal pleasure to lay this parliamentary resolution before the Congress and to express my sincere gratification that the sentiment of two great and kindred nations is thus authoritatively manifested in favor of the rational and peaceable settlement of international quarrels by honorable resort to arbitration.
Page 156 - THREE PER CENT. INTEREST allowed on DEPOSITS, repayable on demand. Two PER CENT, on CURRENT ACCOUNTS, on the minimum monthly balances, when not drawn below sfilOO.
Page 138 - Close to the road-side his body lies; I paused a moment and gave him drink ; He murmured his mother's name, I think, And Death came with it, and closed his eyes." 'Twas a victory ; yes, but it cost us dear — For that company's roll, when called at night, Of a hundred men who went into the fight, Numbered but twenty that answered " Here !
Page 76 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused.
Page 140 - TWO-AND-A-HALF per CENT. INTEREST allowed on DEPOSITS, repayable on demand. TWO per CENT, on CURRENT ACCOUNTS, on the minimum monthly balances, when not drawn below ^100.
Page 193 - Believing that its early settlement, on some just basis alike honorable to both parties, is in the line of our established policy to remove from this hemisphere all causes of difference with powers beyond the sea, I shall renew the efforts heretofore made to bring about a restoration of diplomatic relations between the disputants and to induce a reference to arbitration, a resort which Great Britain so conspicuously favors in principle and respects in practice and which is earnestly sought by her...
Page 71 - Provided, however, that, if in any case the essential matter of difference submitted to arbitration is the right of one of the high contracting parties to receive disavowals of or apologies for acts or defaults of the other not resulting in substantial pecuniary injury...

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