If such a commission were fairly organized, the risk of a loss of popular support and sympathy resulting from a refusal to submit to so peaceful an instrumentality would constrain both parties to such disputes to invoke its interference and abide by its decisions.
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Our people exhibit a patriotic disposition which entitles them to demand...faithful and unselfish service in their behalf.
I do not understand it to be asserted that there exists any legal liability against the Government on account of its relation to these claims.
The Government has therefore once paid the amount of this bond to the party apparently entitled to it.
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