Faithfully yours,
Charles Sumner.
To the Committee.
ARBITRATION AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR WAR.
Resolutions in the Senate, May 31, 1872, concerning Arbitration as a Substitute for War in determining Differences between Nations.
Whereas by International Law and existing custom War is recognized as a form of Trial for the determination of differences between nations; and
Whereas for generations good men have protested against the irrational character of this arbitrament, where force instead of justice prevails, and have anxiously sought for a substitute in the nature of a judicial tribunal, all of which was expressed by Franklin in his exclamation, “When will mankind be convinced that all wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous, and agree to settle their differences by Arbitration?”[44] and