Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations Conference: Report of the Ninth Annual Conference, Held at Cologne, August 16th-19th, 1881 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations Conference: Report of the Ninth Annual Conference, Held at Cologne, August 16th-19th, 1881

The aims which you, Gentlemen, have in view are not new on the contrary, they are as old as human civilisation, when the people became blessed with the understanding that such aims cannot possibly be attained by means of warfare, but solely by means of mutual respect and friendship. But the means whereby you endeavour to promote your objects have scarcely been con genial to our Continent before the nineteenth century. And here I wish to remind you at this place and at this hour of the immense changes which time has brought about. It is just 5 14 years ago that in this very hall a Congress assembled for the Reform and Codification of International Law. It was here that the delegates of the Netherland and Baltic cities promised solemnly to one another jointly to defend, by all available means, the freedom of the sea and its navigation against piracy and everything connected therewith.

Such compacts or confederations need not at present be concluded between mercantile cities; their vessels need no con voys; and, least of all, your Association does not appeal to the power of the sword for protection you rely upon the power of public opinion, from whose rectification and elucidation you have a right to expect that the legislation of separate States shall be harmonised in conformity with international principles, so as to secure a uniformity of law in all matters which admit of it.

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