The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty and the Monroe Doctrine: A Letter from the Secretary of State to the Minister of the United States at London Dated May 8, 1882, with Sundry Papers and Documents Explanatory of the Same, Selected from the Archives of the Department of State |
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... Majesty's Govern- ment , and that the United States were in the past the first to recog- nize the imperial authority of Dom Pedro in Brazil and of Iturbide in Mexico . It is not necessary now to define that doctrine , but its history ...
... Majesty's Govern- ment , and that the United States were in the past the first to recog- nize the imperial authority of Dom Pedro in Brazil and of Iturbide in Mexico . It is not necessary now to define that doctrine , but its history ...
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... Majesty's Government is not called upon either to admit or deny them . To considerations such as these Lord Granville , in his dispatch of November 10 , 1881 , answers that the position of Great Britain and the United States , in ...
... Majesty's Government is not called upon either to admit or deny them . To considerations such as these Lord Granville , in his dispatch of November 10 , 1881 , answers that the position of Great Britain and the United States , in ...
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... Majesty's Government that the treaty did not apply to Her Majesty's settlement at Honduras and its dependencies . Mr. Clayton answered , under date of July 4 , 1850 , that he so understood , but that he must not be understood to either ...
... Majesty's Government that the treaty did not apply to Her Majesty's settlement at Honduras and its dependencies . Mr. Clayton answered , under date of July 4 , 1850 , that he so understood , but that he must not be understood to either ...
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... Majesty . " It is further understood that when the commis- sioners met to mark the boundary in accordance with the ... Majesty's Government refused to proceed , and this large area of land has since remained practically in the possession ...
... Majesty . " It is further understood that when the commis- sioners met to mark the boundary in accordance with the ... Majesty's Government refused to proceed , and this large area of land has since remained practically in the possession ...
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... Majesty's Government , would induce Her Majesty's Government to make such an arrangement with regard to the Mosquito Indians as would prevent its being an obstacle to the design in question . President Taylor was present at the ...
... Majesty's Government , would induce Her Majesty's Government to make such an arrangement with regard to the Mosquito Indians as would prevent its being an obstacle to the design in question . President Taylor was present at the ...
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abrogation Accessory Transit Company aforesaid agreed arbitration Atlantic and Pacific Bay Islands Belize Britain Britannic Majesty British Government canal Cass Central America citizens claim Clarendon Clayton Clayton-Bulwer treaty coast Colonel Childs colonies commerce commissioners communication construction continent convention Costa Rica declaration desire dispatch dominion duties engage English ernment establish favor Government of Nicaragua governor grant guarantee Guatemala hereby interest interoceanic isthmus lands Lawrence Lord Clarendon Lord Palmerston lordship Majesty's Government Malmesbury ment Mosquito coast Mosquito Indians Mosquito shore nations negotiation object Pacific Ocean Pacific Ship-Canal Company Panama persons or company plenipotentiaries ports possession present President proposed protection provisions purpose question ragua ratifications received relations Republic of Honduras Republic of Nicaragua respect river San Juan route San Juan River secure Senate settlement Sir William Ouseley sovereignty Spain Spaniards Spanish stipulations territory thereof tion transit treaty of 1850 United vessels views Washington William Ouseley's mission
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Page 38 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of United States are involved...
Page 40 - The government of New Granada guarantees to the government of the United 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 41 - Isthmus, with the view that the free transit from the one to the other sea, may not. be interrupted or embarrassed in any future time while this treaty exists; and in consequence the United States also guarantees, in the same manner, the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada has and possesses over the said territory.
Page 12 - It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness; nor can anyone believe that our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord. It is equally impossible, therefore, that we should behold such interposition in any form with indifference.
Page 195 - America; nor will either make use of any -protection which either affords, or may afford, or any alliance which either has, or may have, to or with any State or people, for the purpose of erecting or maintaining any such fortifications, or of occupying, fortifying, or colonizing Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosauito Coast, or any part of Central America, or of assuming or exercising dominion over the same.
Page 82 - 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 82 - ... with reference to any means of communication by shipcanal 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.
Page 85 - ... and should any differences arise as to right or property over the territory through which the said canal shall pass, between the States or Governments of Central America, and such differences should in any way impede or obstruct the execution of the said canal, the Governments of the United States and Great Britain will use their good offices to settle such differences in the manner best suited to promote the interests of the said canal, and to strengthen the bonds of friendship and alliance...
Page 83 - ... should deem' that the persons or company undertaking or managing the same adopt or establish such regulations concerning the traffic thereupon as are contrary to the spirit and intention of this convention, either by making unfair discriminations in...
Page 83 - Canal shall traverse, or which shall be near the waters applicable thereto; in order to induce such States, or Governments, to facilitate the construction of the said Canal...