Excerpt from The Supreme Court and Sovereign States The supreme court and sovereign statesc/{lthough educated and hrought up a soldier, and prohahly having heen in as many hattles as anyone else, certainly in as many as most people could have talten part in, yet there was never a time nor a day when it was not my desire that some just and fair way should he estahlished for settling dzfiiculties, instead of hringing innocent persons into conflict and withdrawin g from productive lahor ahle-hodied men, who, in a large majority of cases, have no particular interest in the suhject over which they are contending. I look forward to a day when there will he courts estahlished that shall he recognized hy all nations, which will take into consideration all di ferences hetween nations, and settle, hy arhitration or decision of such courts, these questions.

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