British Aggressions in Venezuela: Or, The Monroe Doctrine on TrialFranklin printing and publishing Company, 1895 - 32 pages |
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accept aggressions agree Amacura Amazon ancient treaties authorities Barima boundary dispute Britain British government British Guinea Caracas ceded cession claim Clayton-Bulwer treaty Colombian compromise concessions from Holland conventional boundary line Cuyuni Cuyuni river declaration of 1823 Demarara diplomatic relations disclaimed discovery dominion Dutch England Essequibo river established European power express legislative sanction extend facto Fortique friendly arbitration Guayana Guiana gulf of Paria independent island of Patos Lord Aberdeen Lord Rosebery Lord Salisbury Michelena Monroe Doctrine Moroco river mouth named nation native Indian navigable nearest continent never noco occupancy official original Schomburgk line Orinoco river Orinoco valley parties possession pretension principle proposition Pumaron river question of boundary re-established referred Rojas Roraima settlements South American republics southward sovereignty Spain Spaniards status quo subsequent concessions territory in dispute tion title by prescription treaty of Aranjuez treaty of Munster treaty of Utrecht United Venezuela Venezuelan envoy westward zuela
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Page 13 - 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.
Page 11 - 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...
Page 13 - European powers to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...
Page 13 - 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 towards the United States.
Page 8 - 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 available, it must extend at least some distance beyond that actually discovered or occupied ; but how far, as an...
Page 12 - When a colony is in revolt, and before its independence has been acknowledged by the parent country, the colonial territory belongs, in the sense of revolutionary right, to the former, and in that of legitimacy, to the latter. It would be monstrous...
Page 22 - March, 1890, and to the east of a line to be marked on the same map running from the source of the River Cumano down that stream and up the Aima and so along the Sierra Usapamo?
Page 25 - The claim now stated to have been put forth by the authorities of British Guiana necessarily gives rise to grave disquietude and creates an apprehension that the territorial claim does not follow historical traditions or evidence, but is apparently indefinite.
Page 5 - The fable of El Dorado, however, seems to have had its origin on the coast of what is now the Republic of Colombia; to have passed thence to the interior altaplanes of Bogota, Tunja, and Pamplona; and thence to the interior table-lands of Guayana. A vague rumor prevailed at different times throughout all these regions that the sovereign prince of the remote interior appeared on great state occasions with his body sprinkled over with glittering gold dust; and the term El Dorado ("The Golden") was...
Page 26 - Orinoco is the key to more than a quarter of the whole continent; and that its dominion by Great Britain could hardly fail, in the course of a few decades, to work radical changes in the commercial relations and political institutions of at least three of the South American republics.