Grant on the Universal Peace Union and Arbitration

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · January 15, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 3

Grant on the Universal Peace Union and Arbitration

MEMBERS of the “Universal Peace Union” called on Gen. Grant while he was in Philadelphia. Gen. Grant, in his reply, said that although he had been brought up a soldier, he was of the opinion that there should be some way of preventing the spilling of innocent blood in a struggle in which but few men were interested. He looked forward to the time when a court could be established which would be recognized by all nations, and which would be the means of settling all international differences of opinion. But he also said that in the course of his travels he had found that there was not in other countries so great a desire for such a court as there is here. So far as the Eastern question is concerned, he thought it would be long before the European nations would consent to a settlement by arbitration, for all the countries bordering on the East are extremely jealous of each other. And he might have added that some of the governments of Europe are not only jealous of each other; they are hardly less jealous of their own subjects, whose loyalty they dare not trust much beyond the reach of a bayonet thrust.—Advance.