Isthmian Canal: Message from the President of the United States Transmitting a Statement of Action in Executing the Act Entitled "An Act to Provide for the Construction of a Canal Connecting the Waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans", Approved June 28, 1903 ... |
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action alcalde American citizens arrival attitude bian troops bloodshed Bogota Government build the canal canal treaty Colom Colombian Congress Colombian Government Colombian gunboat Colombian troops Colonel Torres Commander Hubbard construction Cuba December December 31 declaration ernment fact fire free and uninterrupted governor of Panama Granada guarantee Hay-Herran treaty Hay-Pauncefote treaty honor immediately instructions interoceanic canal Isthmian canal Isthmus of Panama JUNE 28 justified landed at Colon legislation Lieutenant-General Young ment minister at Bogota Minister of Panama Monkey Hill Nashville's force Nicaragua November obligations October officer PACIFIC OCEANS Pan-American Conference Panama and Colon Panama Canal Company Panama Railroad Panama Railroad Company prevent principle protect the lives purpose RAFAEL REYES ratify the treaty reason received recognized reported Republic of Colombia Republic of Panama return to Cartagena revolution revolutionary Secretary Cass Senate Señor sent sovereignty stipulation superintendent telegram territory tion Tobal treaty of 1846 uninterrupted transit United States consul Washington
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Page 3 - That should the President be unable to obtain for the United States a satisfactory title to the property of the New Panama Canal Company and the control of the necessary territory of the Republic of Colombia and the rights mentioned in sections one and two of this Act, within a reasonable time and upon reasonable terms...
Page 25 - This recognition was, in the second place, further justified by the highest considerations of our national interests and safety. In all the range of our international relations, I do not hesitate to affirm that there is nothing of greater or more pressing importance than the construction of an interoceanic canal. Long acknowledged to be essential to our commercial development, it has become, as the result of the recent extension of our territorial dominion, more than ever essential to our national...
Page 3 - Canal, under the provisions of section eight of ,An act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans...
Page 26 - In the third place, 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 6 - Colombia, after having rejected the treaty in spite of our protests and warnings when it was in her power to accept it, has since shown the utmost eagerness to accept the same treaty if only the status quo could be restored. One of the men standing highest in the official circles of Colombia, on November 6, addressed the American minister at Bogota, saying that if the Government of the United States would land troops to preserve Colombian sovereignty and the transit, the Colombian Government would...
Page 4 - Eastern isolation, to close the gates of intercourse on the great highways of the world, and justify the act by the pretension that these avenues of trade and travel belong to them and that they choose to shut them, or, what is almost equivalent, to encumber them with such unjust relations as would prevent their general use.
Page 8 - ... the Congress as to what were the various alternatives of action open to us. There were several possibilities. One was that Colombia would at the last moment see the unwisdom of her position. That there might be nothing omitted, Secretary Hay, through the minister at Bogota, repeatedly warned Colombia that grave consequences might follow from her rejection of the treaty.
Page 3 - States to secure, so far as legislation was concerned, an interoceanic canal across the Isthmus. The effort to secure a treaty for this purpose with one of the Central American Republics did not stand on the same footing with the effort to secure a treaty under any ordinary conditions. The proper position for the United States to assume in reference to this canal, and therefore to the governments of the Isthmus, had been clearly set forth by Secretary Cass in 1858. In my annual message I have already...
Page 5 - In our anxiety to be fair we had gone to the very verge in yielding to a weak nation's demands what that nation was helplessly unable to enforce from us against our will. The only criticisms made upon the Administration for the terms of the Hay-Herran treaty were for having granted too much to Colombia, not for failure to grant enough. Neither in the Congress nor in the public press, at the time that this treaty was formulated, was there complaint that it did not in the fullest and amplest manner...
Page 23 - I have not denied, nor do I wish to deny, either the validity or the propriety of the, general rule that a new state should not be recognized as independent till it has shown its ability to maintain its independence. This rule is derived from the principle of nonintervention, and as a corollary of that principle has generally been observed by the United States. But, like the principle from which it is deduced, the rule is subject to exceptions; and there are in my opinion clear and imperative reasons...