The Isthmian Canal, 1875-1885University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1916 - 136 páginas |
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1st Session 2nd Session 46 Cong 46th Congress abrogate American Canal American Isthmus April Article VIII Atlantic and Pacific Bay Islands Belize Blaine Blaine's Britain British Honduras Buchanan Bulwer Canal and Monroe canal policy canal project canal route Central America Chiriqui Clayton Clayton-Bulwer treaty Colombia Company concluded construction correspondence Darien December declared diplomatic dispatch Eads England European powers exclusive Exec expeditions favor February Foreign Relations Frelinghuysen Granada Grant Granville Greytown guarantee the neutrality Guatemala House Executive Document Huberich inter-oceanic transit interests International Law Digest January Keasbey Lesseps Letter Lord Palmerston March Messages and Papers Monroe Doctrine Mosquitia Mosquito Coast nations naval Navy negotiations Nicaragua Canal Panama Canal Panama railroad Panama route Paris Geographical Society proposed protectorate ratified Report resolution River San Juan scheme Secretary Select Committee Senate Executive Document Senate Miscellaneous Documents sent Sess ship railway sovereignty surveys Tehuantepec territory Trans-Isthmian Canal treaty of 1846 York
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Página 11 - The Governments of the United States and Great Britain having not only desired, in entering into this convention, to accomplish a particular object, but also to establish a general principle, they hereby agree to extend their protection, by treaty stipulations, to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America...
Página 10 - Convention their views and intentions with reference to any means of communication by ship canal, which may be constructed between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by the way of the River San Juan de Nicaragua and either or both of the Lakes of Nicaragua or Managua, to any port or place on the Pacific Ocean,— The President of the United States has conferred full powers on John M.
Página 10 - V. The contracting parties further engage, that when the said canal shall have been completed, they will protect it from interruption, seizure, or unjust confiscation, and that they will guarantee the neutrality thereof, so that the said canal may forever be open and free, and the capital invested therein secure.
Página 3 - If the work should ever be executed so as to admit of the passage of sea vessels from ocean to ocean, the benefits of it ought not to be exclusively appropriated to any one nation, but should be extended to all parts of the globe upon the payment of a just compensation or reasonable tolls.
Página 66 - Therefore, I am unable to recommend propositions involving paramount privileges of ownership or right outside of our own territory, when coupled with absolute and unlimited engagements to defend the territorial integrity of the state where such interests lie.
Página 10 - The contracting parties in this convention engage to invite every State with which both or either have friendly intercourse to enter into stipulations with them similar to those which they have entered into with each other, to the end that all other States may share in the...
Página 10 - And the contracting parties likewise agree that each shall enter into treaty stipulations with such of the Central American States as they may deem advisable for the purpose...
Página 10 - Britain hereby declare, that neither the one nor the other will ever obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the said ship canal; agreeing that neither will ever erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America...
Página 66 - Maintaining, as I do, the tenets of a line of precedents from Washington's day, which proscribe entangling alliances with foreign states, I do not favor a policy of acquisition of new and distant territory or the incorporation of remote interests with our own.
Página 35 - The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to any European power, or to any combination of European powers.