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they something to be depended upon? Will
they be carried into effect?
That depends in the first place upon what
is meant by peace treaties.
If reference is made to certain international
settlements which the conquered, with hatred
in their hearts, bleeding, upon their knees
were forced to accept, we may at once grant
that they imply no security for peace, but, on
the contrary, are a fresh source of warlike
complications.
Thus, for example, the conclusion of peace
which France was forced to sign at Versailles,
Feb. 26th, 1871, and by which Alsace-Lorraine
was torn from France, became a volcano which
now for nineteen years has held the nations in
suspense and unrest, and still threatens to ruin
Europe.
Neither would it be advisable to set much
store on such obligations as the Western
Powers undertook in the agreement which
goes by the name of the November Treaty,
to help us to defend the northern part of our
peninsula against Russia; because a
guaranteed neutrality implies in reality more danger
than safety, if the guarantee is not mutual; that
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