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... Central America , whilst all South America subject to Spanish control was for about two centuries under the viceroy of Peru . In regions too remote to be under his immediate control , audiencias , or courts of justice , were established ...
... Central America , whilst all South America subject to Spanish control was for about two centuries under the viceroy of Peru . In regions too remote to be under his immediate control , audiencias , or courts of justice , were established ...
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... central Europe had taken upon them the task of solving the difficulties of that unfortunate country both at home and in America . The restored rule of the Bourbons in Spain had been far from satisfactory to the great mass of the people ...
... central Europe had taken upon them the task of solving the difficulties of that unfortunate country both at home and in America . The restored rule of the Bourbons in Spain had been far from satisfactory to the great mass of the people ...
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... Central American states , and , what was of vital interest to us , the traffic of the Mississippi valley , at- tracted at an early period the attention of American as well as of European statesmen . In a letter to Presi- dent Madison in ...
... Central American states , and , what was of vital interest to us , the traffic of the Mississippi valley , at- tracted at an early period the attention of American as well as of European statesmen . In a letter to Presi- dent Madison in ...
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... Central America , which seemed the only feasible line of com- munication with our rapidly developing interests in California . Consequently various attempts were made to annex the island to the United States , both by purchase from ...
... Central America , which seemed the only feasible line of com- munication with our rapidly developing interests in California . Consequently various attempts were made to annex the island to the United States , both by purchase from ...
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... Central American canals were dwelt upon . The death of Mr. Webster postponed for some time the answer of the United States , but the proposal was finally rejected in a notable dispatch prepared by Webster's successor , Edward Everett ...
... Central American canals were dwelt upon . The death of Mr. Webster postponed for some time the answer of the United States , but the proposal was finally rejected in a notable dispatch prepared by Webster's successor , Edward Everett ...
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Page 76 - In the wars of the European powers, in matters relating to themselves, we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.
Page 75 - I told him specially that we should contest the right of Russia to any territorial establishment on this continent, and that we should assume distinctly the principle that the American continents are no longer subjects for any new European colonial establishments.
Page 323 - Nothing contained in this convention shall be so construed as to require the United States of America to depart from its traditional policy of not intruding upon, interfering with, or entangling itself in the political questions of policy or internal administration of any foreign state; nor shall anything contained in the said convention be construed to imply a relinquishment by the United States of America of its traditional attitude toward purely American questions.
Page 149 - States that the right of way or transit across the Isthmus of Panama, upon any modes of communication that now exist or that may be hereafter constructed, shall be open and free to the Government and citizens of the United States...
Page 133 - Third, that the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States, and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia of the several States to such extent as may be necessary to carry these resolutions into effect.
Page 242 - ... aggression upon its rights and interests the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which after investigation we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela. In making these recommendations I am fully alive to the responsibility incurred, and keenly realize all the consequences that may follow.
Page 242 - When such report is made and accepted it will, in my opinion, be the duty of the United States to resist by every means in its power as a wilful aggression upon its rights and interests the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which after investigation we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela.
Page 240 - American state from its obligations as fixed by international law nor prevent any European power directly interested from enforcing such obligations or from inflicting merited punishment for the breach of them. It does not contemplate any interference in the internal affairs of any American state or in the relations between it and other American states. It does not justify any attempt on our part to change the established form of government of any American state or to prevent the people of such state...
Page 330 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world : that no nation should seek to extend its policy over any other nation or people, but that every people should be left free to determine its own policy, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened. unafraid, the little along with the great and powerful.
Page 104 - After we shall have offered Spain a price for Cuba far beyond its present value, and this shall have been refused, it will then be time to consider the question — Does Cuba, in the possession of Spain, seriously endanger our internal peace and the existence of our cherished Union ? Should this question In.