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Updated: May 31, 2025
I declined to accept the recommendation put forward by Monsieur Nesimir, to whom, by the way, I attribute the utmost good faith, and Stampoff, whose patriotic ardor halts at nothing, practically threatened me with the loss of my Kingdom as the penalty of disobedience. I said that I was quite willing to leave the whole matter to the arbitrament of the people.
What he calls "the final arbitrament of arms" is to such a one a righteous decision, provided always it be in his favor. He may affect the demagogue, and talk loudly about the power of the people, but you will observe that this refers to them en masse, in the whole or concrete.
Treaties of armed alliance can have no likelihood of American sanction, but we believe in respecting the rights of nations, in the value of conference and consultation, in the effectiveness of leaders of nations looking each other in the face ace before resorting to the arbitrament of arms. It has been our fortune both to preach and promote international understanding.
By the arbitrament of war, and by constitutional amendment, old questions, for a half-century the prime cause of sectional strife, had been irrevocably settled, and passed to the domain of history. New men had come to the front, and new questions were to be discussed and determined. To the student of history, the years immediately preceding the Civil War are of abiding interest.
It might be right, it undoubtedly was right, to defend the weak against brutal strength in the way he had done, but war between nations was different. He simply could not participate in it. He had been stigmatised as a coward, and as a traitor to his country, but still he must be true to his conscience. Law and order were different from the arbitrament of the sword.
An appeal was to be made to the arbitrament of the sword. Long before war broke out it had become a commonplace of political theory that the Southern Slav question could be solved in one of two ways either inside the Habsburg Monarchy or outside it either with its help and under its aegis, or against it and despite its resistance.
Among other advantages, which need not be discussed here, Germany would have had the country secured to her as a possible sphere of colonization. In such cases might gives the right to occupy or to conquer. Might is at once the supreme right, and the dispute as to what is right is decided by the arbitrament of war.
Contrariwise, certain Laodiceans, and lukewarm persons, think they may accommodate points of religion, by middle way, and taking part of both, and witty reconcilements; as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.
The supreme importance of these characters has been proved by the final arbitrament of the battle for life. Through his powers of intellect, articulate language has been evolved; and on this his wonderful advancement has mainly depended. As Mr. He has invented and is able to use various weapons, tools, traps, etc., with which he defends himself, kills or catches prey, and otherwise obtains food.
Even Daniel Bolton thought that the young man should have a chance, by saying which he was supposed to declare that the question ought to be left to the arbitrament of the young lady. The old banker was unhappy and ill at ease. He could not reconcile himself at once to so great a change.
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