Were the demands of nations upon the justice of each other susceptible of adjudication by the sentence of an impartial tribunal, those to which I now refer would long since have been settled and adequate indemnity would have been obtained.
Adams argues for the establishment of an impartial tribunal to resolve international disputes, reflecting on the justice owed between nations.
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