The Ethics of the Panama Question: Address Before the Union League Club of Chicago, February 22, 1904C. G. Burgoyne, 1904 - 36 pages |
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31st of October 450 Colombian amendments American Government appointed approval armed force Arosemana benefit blue jackets build the canal canal treaty Central America citizens City of Panama Colombian troops Commander commerce confederation Constitution of 1863 construct the canal Costa Rica Country declared duty towards Colombia elected ELIHU ROOT entitled exercise FEBRUARY 22 federal force of forty-two forty million dollars forty-two marines Granada grant guarantee HARVARD COLLEGE insurgents interests international law Isthmus of Panama latures legislative liberty Mallarino mankind marines and blue Maroquin ment Minister at Bogota Monroe Doctrine nations naval Nunez obligation officers PANAMA QUESTION Panama Railroad party pended permanent neutrality confirmed Police possession President Polk protect ratified recognized rejection Republic of Colombia Republic of Panama revolution right of passage rules of international Sanclamente Secretary Senate South America sovereign tain telegraphed territory tion treaty of 1846 unanimous United States assumed Venezuela Vice-President vote WALKER AND CENTRE world's easement world's right
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Page 9 - 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 hereafter be constructed, shall be open and free to the Government and citizens of the United States...
Page 9 - And, in order to secure to themselves the tranquil and constant enjoyment of these advantages, and as an especial compensation for the said advantages, and for the favors they have acquired by the 4th, 5th, and 6th Articles of this treaty, the United States guarantee, positively and efficaciously, to New 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...
Page 31 - Torres. would open fire on the town of Colon and kill every United States citizen in the place, and my advice and action were requested. I advised that all the United States citizens should take refuge in the...
Page 16 - Sovereignty has its duties as well as its rights and none of these local Governments, even if administered with more regard to the just demands of other nations than they have been, would be permitted in a spirit of eastern isolation to close these gates of intercourse on the great highways of the world...
Page 32 - I beg to assure the Department that I had no part whatever in the negotiations that were carried on between Colonel 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...
Page 27 - Panama invested with full powers; that he had telegraphed the President of Mexico to ask the Government of the United States and all countries represented at the Pan-American Conference "to aid Colombia to preserve her integrity"; and that he had requested that the Government of the United States should meanwhile "preserve the neutrality and transit of the Isthmus" and should "not recognize the new government.
Page 30 - I think proper to say, therefore, that no one connected with this Government had any part in preparing, inciting, or encouraging the late revolution on the Isthmus of Panama...
Page 32 - American lives or property; that I relanded an armed force because of the failure of Colonel Torres to carry out his agreement to withdraw and announced intention of returning, and that my attitude throughout was strictly neutral as between the two parties, my only purpose being to protect the lives and property of American citizens and to preserve the free and uninterrupted transit of the Isthmus.
Page 26 - The absence of Sanclamente from the capital became permanent by his death in prison in the year 1902. When the people of Panama declared their independence in November last, no Congress had sat in Colombia since the year 1898, except the special Congress called by Maroquin to reject the canal treaty, and which did reject it by a unanimous vote, and adjourned without legislating on any other subject. The constitution of 1886 had taken away from Panama the power of self-government and vested it in...
Page 9 - The treaty does not propose to guarantee a territory to a foreign nation in which the United States will have no common interest with that nation. On the contrary, we are more deeply and directly interested in the subject of this guaranty than New Granada herself or any other country.