Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1917 — Duties of Nations and Peoples. [ARTICLE]

Duties of Nations and Peoples.

Wbat can be of more transcendent dignity or better fitted to employ th® highest faculties of genius than the development of those important truths which teach the duties of magistrates and people; the rights of peace and war; the limits of lawful hostilities; the mutual duties of belligerent and neutral powers; and which aim at the introduction in International affairs of that benign spirit of Christian virtue which tempers the exercise even of acknowledged rights with mercy, humanity and delicacy.—Justice Joseph Story. . ' p