The Interoceanic Canal and the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty1900 - Panama Canal (Panama) - 26 pages |
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advantages alliance assembling in waters Atlantic and Pacific BASSETT MOORE Professor Bayard of July belligerent Blaine Brit Britain British Government British Honduras Bulwer Treaty canal or railway Cass Central America Charles Biddle citizens or subjects Clayton Clayton-Bulwer Treaty clusive commerce connects North construction convention Costa Rica criticised declared dependencies Dickinson-Ayon Treaty engagement of neutralization erect or maintain ernment Evarts exclusive control free and equal Frelinghuysen Granada Hay treaty Hay-Pauncefote Treaty historic policy interoceanic canal Isthmus of Panama isthmus which connects JOHN BASSETT MOORE Lord Pauncefote Majesty's maritime powers Minister Monroe doctrine Mosquito Coast navies a pretext negotiations Nicaragua Canal obtain or maintain Olney Pacific oceans parties pending treaty perfect neutrality President Hayes proposed ratifications right of transit seizure Senate Seward ship canal signed at Washington South America Suez Canal suitable treaty stipulations term neutral territory tion TREATY BY JOHN treaty of 1846 treaty with Nicaragua vessels
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Page 8 - 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...
Page 6 - Granada, by the present stipulation, the perfect neutrality of the beforementioned 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 11 - The Suez Maritime Canal shall always be free and open, in time of war as in time of peace, to every vessel of commerce or of war, without distinction of flag.
Page 6 - 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 18 - ... 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 Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America, or of assuming or exercising dominion over the same...
Page 17 - 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 17 - 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 12 - Without urging further the grounds of my opinion, I repeat, in conclusion, that it is the right and the duty of the United States to assert and maintain such supervision and authority over any interoceanic canal across the isthmus that connects North and South America as will protect our national interests.
Page 7 - ... 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.
Page 20 - The discordant constructions of the Clayton and Bulwer treaty between the two Governments, which at different periods of the discussion bore a threatening aspect, have resulted in a final settlement entirely satisfactory to this Government.