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1st Sess 2nd Sess 31st Cong 32nd Cong 34th Cong 46th Congress 47th Cong Affairs for 1856 arrangement Bancroft's Hist Bay Islands Belize Book on Cent Brit Britain British Blue Book British Government British Honduras Bulwer treaty Central America Central American Affairs Clayton Clayton-Bulwer treaty colony commercial conclusion condition of affairs continued convention Costa Rica course declaration England English establishment fact favor filibusters foreign Greytown Guatemala Hence House Ex Ibid Indians influence instrument interests interoceanic isthmian transits isthmus maintained Majesty's Government matter ment Monroe Doctrine Moreover Mosquito Coast Mosquito King Mosquito protectorate Mosquito Shore nations negotiations neutrality Nicaragua occupied opening Palmerston parties possession proposed canal protection provisions purpose quito ratified regarding region relations Republic respecting result route San Juan River secure Senate settlement ship-canal sovereignty Spain Spaniards Spanish Squier's territory tion tral America treaty of 1850 United States Government violation water-way Whig Rev
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Page 203 - The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to any European power or to any combination of European powers.
Page 120 - ... to extend their protection, by treaty stipulations, to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America, and especially to the inter-oceanic communications, should the same prove to be practicable, whether by canal or railway, which are now proposed to be established by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama.
Page 24 - His Britannic Majesty shall cause to be demolished all the fortifications which his subjects shall have erected in the Bay of Honduras and other places in the territory of Spain in that part of the world...
Page 121 - ... to include the British settlement in Honduras, (commonly called British Honduras, as distinct from the State of Honduras,) nor the small islands in the neighborhood of that settlement, which may be known as its dependencies. To this settlement, and these islands, the treaty we negotiated was not intended by either of us to apply. The title to them it is now and has been my intention, throughout the whole negotiation, to leave, as the treaty leaves...
Page 199 - Our relations with Great Britain are of the most friendly character. Since the commencement of my Administration the two dangerous questions arising from the Clayton and Bulwer treaty and from the right of search claimed by the British Government have been amicably and honorably adjusted. The discordant constructions of the Clayton and Bulwer treaty between the two Governments, which at different periods of the discussion bore a threatening aspect, have resulted in a final settlement entirely satisfactory...
Page 119 - Pacific, and agreed, among other things, that neither nation would ever "obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the said ship canal," or " erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume, or exercise, any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito Coast, or any part of Central America...
Page 204 - I repeat, in conclusion, that it is the right and the duty of the United States to assert and maintain such supervision and authority over any interoceanic canal across the isthmus that connects North and South America as will protect our national interests.
Page 123 - April whatever is Her Majesty's settlement at Honduras, nor whatever are the dependencies of that settlement, and that Her Majesty's title thereto subsequent to the said Treaty will remain just as it was prior to that Treaty, without undergoing any alteration whatever in consequence thereof.
Page 102 - Majesty's government binding both nations never to colonize, annex, settle, or fortify any part of the ancient territory of Guatemala, embracing Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, and, indeed, the whole Mosquito coast...