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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
Mr. Ladd, William Ladd, 1778-1841; he lived at Minot, me. in the old court house at Cambridge, shortly after I left college, confirmed these impressions. My ripened convictions were known to my friends, and were often the subject of conversation. Nor did I confine the expression of them to my own country. When in Europe, it so happened that on more than one occasion, in conversation and otherwise, in France, Germany, and England, I dwelt upon this subject. Let me relate an incident. In Paris, M. Victor Foucher, Procureur-General du Roi. being engaged upon a treatise on the law of nations, did me the honor, in the winter of 1838 (more than ten years ago,) to ask me to read a portion of his manuscript, inviting my criticism. On studying it, I observed that he had adopted in his prolegomena, among the fundamental principles of the law of nations, that war was recognized as the necessary arbitrament or mode of determining justice between nations, thus giving to it the character o