Between the UNITED STATES of North America and DENMARK, in which the latter was, by the chosen arbitrator, the English Ambassador at Athens, Sir Edward Monson, after long delay freed from the obligation to pay compensation to the Americans, because the Danish authorities had fired at an American ship which in 1854 was escaping out of the harbour of St. Thomas, and which was suspected of carrying supplies to Venezuela, at that time in insurrection. In conclusion it can be urged,-- That FRANCE and HOLLAND agreed to have the boundary between their possessions in Guiana determined by arbitration.[13] That the international committee which met in Washington to arrange the impending fishery question between GREAT BRITAIN, CANADA and the UNITED STATES, decided to recommend the creation of a permanent tribunal of arbitration for adjusting future disputes respecting these relations; also: That the council of the Swiss Confederation, at the combined request of PORTUGAL and of the CONGO STATE Government has undertaken to arbitrate the possible disputes which may arise respecting the regulation of boundaries amongst their African territories. Besides these and other instances which I am acquainted with, many others have certainly taken place, though attracting less attention. The idea of arbitration goes peacefully and quietly forward, and the world therefore takes little notice of it. It is quite otherwise with the crash of war, whose external show of greatness and glory, and whose inward hatred and crime, are desolating the happiness of the nations and are accompanied by distress and gloom. The one is a fearful hurricane which rends the mountains and breaks in pieces the rocks. The other is the still small voice, mightier than the devastating storm, since it speaks to us in the name of everlasting righteousness, because it is the voice of God. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: Mazzoleni, in his "L'Italia nel movimento per la Pace," gives twenty instances. See pp. 58, 59. TRANS.] [Footnote 2: On a motion by Ruggiero Bonghi, supported by Crispi in a speech in which he said that the future depended upon a European tribunal of arbitration.] [Footnote 3: See Martens' "Nouveau recueil général," xiv. p. 32 (art xxi.), and Calvo, "Droit International," II., § 1499.] [Footnote 4: According to a Manuscript by President Louis Ruchonnet, addressed to F. Bajer.] [Footnote 5: See "Svensk förfaltningssamling," 1869, No. 74, page 26, and "Lois Beiges," 1869, No. 36, § 24. In the Swedish-Siamese treaty, art. 25, it is stated: "Should any disagreement arise between the contracting parties which cannot be arranged by friendly diplomatic negotiation or correspondence, the question shall be referred for solution to a friendly neutral power, mutually chosen, whose decision the contracting powers shall accept as final." Similar agreements are to be concluded between Italy and Switzerland, Spain and Uruguay, Spain and Hawaii, and between France and Ecuador.]