Recognition: A Chapter from the History of the North American & South American StatesW. M'Dowall, 1863 - 46 pages |
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4th of July acknowledged actual Amphitrite army authorising authority Ayacucho Beaumarchais Belgium Bolivar British Government Buenos Ayres Callao Canning's Speeches capitulation character Chili and Buenos circumstances civil claim colonies Columbia commerce Comte de Vergennes conduct Confederate confer consul contending parties contest contraband contraband of war declaration of independence dence diplomatic discuss dominion England English entitled established Europe fact of independence facto favour foreign Power France in 1778 French Government Guatemala hostility house of Hortalez independence of Mexico interest International Law intervention justify King Law of Nations Lewis the Sixteenth limited recognition Lord Stormont Mackintosh's Majesty manifesto Martens measure mediation Minister mother country negotiations Netherlands obligation opinion Order in Council Papers pendence Peru portion ports possession of independence precedent principles Puerto Cabello question quote regard relations revolted province separate political existence Sovereign sovereignty Spain Spanish American tion transaction treaty engagements United Vattel Vergennes vessels vinces
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Page 38 - Porte admitted to participate in the advantages of the public law and system (concert) of Europe.
Page 26 - The measure is proposed under a thorough conviction that it is in strict accord with the law of nations, that it is just and right as to the parties, and that the United States owe it to their station and character in the world, as well as to their essential interests, to adopt it.
Page 26 - When we regard, then, the great length of time which this war has been prosecuted, the complete success which has attended it in favor of the Provinces, the present condition of the parties, and the utter inability of Spain to produce any change in it, we are compelled to conclude that its fate is settled, and that the Provinces which have declared their independence and are in the enjoyment of it ought to be recognized.
Page 25 - Country, with the exception of an inconsiderable portion only, which is blockaded in two fortresses. The Provinces on the Pacific have likewise been very successful. Chili declared Independence in 1818, and has since enjoyed it undisturbed; and of late, by the assistance of Chili and Buenos Ayres, the Revolution has extended to Peru. Of the movement in Mexico our information is less authentic, but it is, nevertheless, distinctly understood, that the new Government has declared its Independence, and...
Page 24 - Through the whole of this contest the United States have remained neutral, and have fulfilled with the utmost impartiality all the obligations incident to that character.
Page 31 - ... respect cannot be indefinitely bound up by that of his Catholic Majesty ; and that even before many months elapse, the desire now sincerely felt by the British government to leave this precedency to Spain, may be overborne by considerations of a more comprehensive nature ; — considerations regarding not only the essential interests of his Majesty's subjects, but the relations of the Old World with the New.
Page 36 - The acknowledgment of a new state as independent and entitled to a place in the family of nations is at all times an act of great delicacy and responsibility, but more especially so when such state has forcibly separated itself from another of which it has formed an integral part and which still claims dominion over it.
Page 35 - States, be too absurd to be maintained; and if the latter, the treatment of their Inhabitants as Pirates and Outlaws, be too monstrous to be applied, for an indefinite length of time, to a large portion of the habitable Globe; No other choice remained for Great Britain, or for any Country having intercourse with the Spanish American Provinces, but to...
Page 35 - To continue to call that a possession of Spain, in which all Spanish occupation and power had been actually extinguished and effaced, could render no practical service to the mother country ; but it would have risked the peace of the world. For all political communities are responsible to other political communities...
Page 35 - For all political communities are responsible to other political communities for their conduct — that is, they are bound to perform the ordinary international duties, and to afford redress for any violation of the rights of others by their citizens or subjects.