 | Lars Schoultz - 1998 - 500 pages
...to establish a transportation route across the isthmus of Panama in exchange for a US guarantee of "the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada has and possesses over the said territory."4 Almost immediately William Aspinwall's Pacific Mail Steamship Company secured permission... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 2004 - 270 pages
...or embarrassed 1 in any future time while this treaty exists; and, in consequence, the United States also guarantee, in the same manner, the rights of...Granada has and possesses over the said territory. 2 It will be observed that these words contain two guarantees from the United States to Colombia (at... | |
 | David P. Currie - 2007 - 341 pages
...Neighbors at 22 (cited in note 16). guaranteed "the perfect neutrality of the before-mentioned isthmus" and "the rights of sovereignty and property which New...Granada has and possesses over the said territory." 40 In reliance on these provisions, Pierce wrote, "citizens of the United States have, by the outlay... | |
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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,... 
