The Venezuelan Question: British Aggressions in Venezuela, Or The Monroe Doctrine on Trial; Lord Salisbury's Mistakes; Fallacies of the British "blue Book" on the Disputed Boundary

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Franklin Printing and Publishing Company, 1895 - 91 páginas
 

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Página 19 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights, and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Página 16 - This principle was, that discovery gave title to the government by whose subjects or by whose authority it was made, against all other European governments, which title might be consummated by possession. The exclusion of all other Europeans necessarily gave to the nation making the discovery the sole right of acquiring the soil from the natives, and establishing settlements upon it. It was a right with which no Europeans could interfere. It was a right which all asserted for themselves, and to the...
Página 19 - European powers to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...
Página 89 - Natural y Evangelica de la Nueva Andalucia Provincias de Cumana, Guayana, y Vertientes del Rio Orinoco,
Página 13 - That continuity furnishes a just foundation for a claim of " territory, in connection with those of discovery and occupation, would seem unquestionable. It is admitted by all that "neither of them is limited by the precise spot discovered or "occupied. It is evident that in order to make either avail...
Página 46 - Olney, but this concession was made on the distinct understanding that Great Britain did not thereby in any way abandon her claim -to that position.
Página 88 - Venezuela will remain unchanged, the dispute has reached such a stage as to make it now incumbent upon the United States to take measures to determine with sufficient certainty for its justification what is the true divisional line between the Republic of Venezuela and British Guiana.
Página 19 - But with the governments who have declared their independence and maintained it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any manner their destiny, by any European power, in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.
Página 49 - ... fundamental laws promulgated in 1819 and 1821. I need not point out that a declaration of this kind made by a newly self-constituted State can have no valid force as against international arrangements previously concluded by the nation from which it has separated itself. But the present difficulty would never have arisen if the Government of Venezuela had been content to claim only those territories which could be proved or even reasonably asserted to have been practically in the possession and...
Página 31 - If, indeed, it should appear that there is no fixed limit to the British boundary claim, our good disposition to aid in a settlement might not only be defeated, but be obliged to give place to a feeling of grave concern.

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