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a treaty. Perhaps only two in our own
country’s history could fitly be compared with
it. Washington’s administration established the
republic; Lincoln’s administration abolished
human slavery. We fondly hope, sir, that it
may be reserved for yours to conclude a treaty
not only with the government of the other
great English-speaking nation, but with other
lands as well, which shall henceforth and for
ever secure to those nations the blessings of
mutual peace and goodwill. The conclusion of
such a treaty will have done much to remove
from humanity its greatest stain—the killing of
man by man. And we venture to hope, that if
the two great nations here represented set such
an example, other nations may be induced to
follow it, and war be thus ultimately banished
from the face of the earth.”
In the President’s favourable answer he
mentioned that no nation in its moral and material
development could show more victories in the
domain of peace than the American; and it
appeared to him that the land which had
produced such proofs of the blessings of peace,
and therefore need not fear being accused of
weakness, must be in a specially favourable
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