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... The American Journal of International Law - Page 42edited by - 1913Full view - About this book
| Joseph Blunt - History - 1830 - 646 pages
...place the United States in the possession of the information necessary to enlighten their judgment. If the work should ever be executed, so as to admit...payment of a just compensation, or reasonable tolls. What is most desirable, at present, is, to possess the data necessary to form a correct judgment of... | |
| 1843 - 610 pages
...correspondence on this subject between him and the minister of Central America, and it was stated that if the work should ever be executed so as to admit of the passage of seavessels, the benefits of it ought not to be exclusively appropriated to any one nation, but should... | |
| E. G. SQUIER - 1853 - 462 pages
...means and united exertions, and not left to the separate and unassisted efforts of any one power. * * * If the work should ever be executed, so as to admit of the passage of sea vessels from one ocean to the other, the benefits of it ought not to be exclusively appropriated by any one nation,... | |
| Francis Wharton - International law - 1886 - 858 pages
...the Isthmus be opened, "so as to admit of the passage of sea-vessels from ocean to ocean, the benefit of it ought not to be exclusively appropriated to...payment of a just compensation or reasonable tolls." Mr. Clay, Sec. of State, to Messrs. Anderson and Sergeant, May 8, 1826. MSS. Inst., Ministers. Mr.... | |
| Francis Wharton - Government publications - 1886 - 858 pages
...the Isthmus be opened, "so as to admit of the passage of sea-vessels from ocean to ocean, the benefit of it ought not to be exclusively appropriated to...payment of a just compensation or reasonable tolls." Mr. Clay, Sec. of State, to Messrs. Anderson and Sergeant, May 8, 1826. MSS. Inst., Ministers. Mr.... | |
| Francis Wharton - International law - 1886 - 862 pages
...Isthmus be opened, " so as to admit of the passage of sea-vessels from ocean to ocean, the benefit of it ought not to be exclusively appropriated to...payment of a just compensation or reasonable tolls." Mr. Clay, Sec. of State, to Messrs. Anderson and Sergeant, May 8, 1826. MSS. Inst., Ministers. Mr.... | |
| Francis Wharton - International law - 1887 - 1020 pages
...the Isthmus be opened, "so as to admit of the passage of sea-vessels from ocean to ocean, the benefit of it ought not to be exclusively appropriated to...payment of a just compensation or reasonable tolls." Mr. Clay, Sec. of State, to Messrs. Anderson and Sergeant, May 8, 1826. MSS. lust., Ministers. Mr.... | |
| Francis Wharton - International law - 1887 - 1022 pages
...of one particular sovereign. Sec infra, $$ 40, 147, 150c. If a canal across the Isthmus be opened, "so as to admit of the passage of sea vessels from ocean to ocean, the benefit of it ought not to be exclusively appropriated to any one nation, but should be extended to... | |
| James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 538 pages
...of his diplomatic instructions. Should such a canal be constructed," the benefits of it," he wrote," ought not to be' exclusively appropriated to any one...but should be extended to all parts of the globe." Nine years later the Senate and President Jackson assented to the same principle; and President Polk... | |
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