The Panama Canal and Our Relations with Colombia: Papers Relating to the Acquisition of the Canal Zone, Including an Extract from the Message of President Roosevelt, December 7, 1903, and the Message Relating to the Isthmian Canal, January 4, 1904; an Address by the Hon. Elihu Root Before the Union League Club, on the "Ethics of the Panama Question"; an Editorial from the Outlook of October 7, 1911, on "How the United States Acquired the Right to Dig the Panama Canal"; the Letter of Mr. Hay, Secretary of State, to Gen. Rafael Reyes, Dated January 5, 1904, and an Extract from the Autobiography of Mr. Roosevelt ... |
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Page 40 - States guarantee, positively and efficaciously, to New Granada, by the present stipulation, the perfect neutrality of the before-mentioned 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 guarantee, in the same manner, the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada has and possesses over the said territory.
Page 68 - Panama and authorizes the New Panama Canal Company to sell and transfer to the United States its rights, privileges, properties and concessions as well as the Panama Railroad and all the shares or part of the shares of that company...
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 13 - An act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans,
Page 29 - I confidently maintain that the recognition of the Republic of Panama was an act justified by the interests of collective civilization. If ever a government could be said to have received a mandate from civilization to effect an object the accomplishment of which was demanded in the interest of mankind, the United States holds that position with regard to the interoceanic canal.
Page 24 - It was only the coolness and gallantry with which this little band of men wearing the American uniform faced ten times their number of armed foes, bent on carrying out the atrocious threat of the Colombian commander, that prevented a murderous catastrophe.
Page 9 - ... December, 1884. — Revolutionary attempt. January, 1885. — Revolutionary disturbances. March, 1885.— Revolution. April, 1887. — Disturbance on Panama Railroad. November, 1887. — Disturbance on line of canal. January, 1889.— Riot. January, 1895. — Revolution which lasted until April.
Page 30 - ... along its line; and hand in hand with the benefit to them will go the benefit to us and to mankind. By our prompt and decisive action, not only have our interests and those of the world at large been conserved, but we have forestalled complications which were likely to be fruitful in loss to ourselves, and in bloodshed and suffering to the people of the Isthmus. Instead of using our forces, as we were invited by Colombia to do, for the twofold purpose of defeating our own rights and interests...
Page 28 - President Polk pointed out as the principal reason for its ratification that the passage of the Isthmus, which it was designed to secure, 'would relieve us from a long and dangerous navigation of more than 0,000 miles around Cape Horn, and render our communication with our own possessions on the northwest coast of America comparatively easy and speedy.
Page 51 - Torres and the representatives of the provisional government; that I landed an armed force only when the lives of American citizens were threatened, and withdrew this force as soon as there seemed to be no grounds for further apprehension of injury to American 'lives or property; that I relanded an armed force because of the failure of Col.