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... conferences with Pitt . Finding no help for his revo- lutionary schemes in England , he went to the conti- nent and traveled through France , Germany , Turkey , and Russia . At the Russian court he was warmly received , but was soon ...
... conferences with Pitt . Finding no help for his revo- lutionary schemes in England , he went to the conti- nent and traveled through France , Germany , Turkey , and Russia . At the Russian court he was warmly received , but was soon ...
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... conferences with the British ministry in regard to the Spanish - American questión , but it was always under- stood that they were personal and wholly unauthor- ized . What occurred at these interviews was , of course , always ...
... conferences with the British ministry in regard to the Spanish - American questión , but it was always under- stood that they were personal and wholly unauthor- ized . What occurred at these interviews was , of course , always ...
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... conferences both with Presi- dent Jefferson and Secretary of State Madison . Upon his return to New York he represented to those in- terested in his schemes that he had secured from the government a secret sanction of his project , and ...
... conferences both with Presi- dent Jefferson and Secretary of State Madison . Upon his return to New York he represented to those in- terested in his schemes that he had secured from the government a secret sanction of his project , and ...
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... tion as an accomplished fact and make the best terms for his country he could . Accordingly he met Iturbide Hall's " Journal , " Vol . II , p . 188 . in conference at Cordova , and after a brief discussion 46 UNITED STATES AND LATIN ...
... tion as an accomplished fact and make the best terms for his country he could . Accordingly he met Iturbide Hall's " Journal , " Vol . II , p . 188 . in conference at Cordova , and after a brief discussion 46 UNITED STATES AND LATIN ...
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John Holladay Latané. in conference at Cordova , and after a brief discussion signed the treaty bearing that name , August 24 , 1821 . It was agreed that a provisional junta should be ap- pointed , that O'Donaju should be a member , and ...
John Holladay Latané. in conference at Cordova , and after a brief discussion signed the treaty bearing that name , August 24 , 1821 . It was agreed that a provisional junta should be ap- pointed , that O'Donaju should be a member , and ...
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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.