Anglo-American Isthmian Diplomacy, 1815-1915 |
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abrogation American government April arrangement attitude Bancroft Bay Islands Belize boundary Brit Britain British government British Honduras Buchanan Bulwer to Palmerston Bulwer treaty canal Cass Central American question Chatfield to Palmerston claims Clayton Clayton-Bulwer treaty colony Coms Cong consequence Correspondence respecting Central Costa Rica Crampton to Clarendon declared Dept desire dispute England Fabens favor filibusters Foreign Secretary friendly Greytown Guat Guatemala Hond Honduras Ibid Indians instructions intention interest interoceanic isthmus Jamaica letter Littell's Living Age London LXIV LXVIII Marcoleta Marcy matter ment Monroe doctrine Mosquito coast Mosquito protectorate Mosquito Shore Mosquito territory Napier nations negotiations Nica Nicaragua Notes on Central Ouseley Ouseley's Panama Papers Parl President protection ragua ratification regarding reply reported respecting Central America route Ruatan San Juan secure Senate settled settlement sovereignty Spanish Spanish-American Republics Squier tion U. S. Docs United States government United States respecting vessels Walker Washington Webster wrote Wyke
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Page 93 - Britain take advantage of any intimacy, or use any alliance, connection or influence that either may possess with any State or Government through whose territory the said Canal may pass, for the purpose of acquiring or holding, directly or indirectly, for the citizens or subjects of the one, any rights or advantages in regard to commerce or navigation through the said Canal, which shall not be offered on the same terms to the citizens or subjects of the other.
Page 93 - 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...
Page 236 - The fact is, that when two nations like Great Britain and The United States, mutually desirous as they are, and I trust ever may be, of maintaining the most friendly relations with each other, have unfortunately concluded a Treaty which they understand in senses directly opposite, the wisest course is to abrogate such a Treaty by mutual consent, and to commence anew.
Page 284 - Under these circumstances, upon every principle which governs the relation to each other, either of nations or of individuals, the United States is completely estopped from denying that the treaty is in full force and vigor. If changed conditions now make stipulations, which were once deemed advantageous, either inapplicable or injurious, the true remedy is not in ingenious attempts to deny the existence of the treaty or to explain away its provisions, but in a direct and straightforward application...
Page 101 - To this settlement and these islands the Treaty we negotiated was not intended by either of us to apply. The title to them it is now, and has been my intention throughout the whole negotiation to leave, as the Treaty leaves it, without denying, affirming or in any way meddling with the same, just as it stood previously.
Page 304 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these Rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic, or otherwise. Such conditions and charges of traffic shall be just and equitable.
Page 304 - It is agreed that no change of territorial sovereignty or of the international relations of the country or countries traversed by the beforementioned canal shall affect the general principle of neutralization or the obligation of the High Contracting Parties under the present Treaty.
Page 303 - The canal shall never be blockaded, nor shall any right of war be exercised nor any act of hostility be committed within it. The United States, however, shall be at liberty to maintain such military police along the canal as may be necessary to protect it against lawlessness and disorder.
Page 271 - The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States can not consent to the surrender of this control to any European power or to any combination of European powers.
Page 179 - Cyane's mission could have been consummated without any act of public force; but the arrogant contumacy of the offenders rendered it impossible to avoid the alternative, either to break up their establishment, or to leave them impressed with the idea that they might persevere with impunity in a career of insolence and plunder.