Nicaragua: Past, Present and Future: A Description of Its Inhabitants, Customs, Mines, Minerals, Early History, Modern Filibusterism, Proposed Inter-oceanic Canal and Manifest DestinyUnited States Book Company, succors to John W. Lovell Company, 1859 - 372 pages |
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Page 280 - alliance, which either has, or may have, to or with any State or people, for the purpose of erecting or maintaining any such fortifications, or of occupying or colonizing Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito Coast, or any part of Central America, or of assuming or exercising any dominion over the same.
Page 281 - Neither will take advantage of any intimacy, or use any alliance, connection, or influence that either may possess with any State or people, through whose territory the Canal may pass, for the purpose of acquiring or holding, directly or indirectly, for its own citizens or subjects, any unequal rights, or advantages of commerce or navigation.
Page 237 - your command to prevent her landing her passengers upon mere suspicion. You will be careful not to interfere with lawful commerce. But where you find that an American vessel is manifestly engaged in carrying on an expedition or enterprise from the territories or jurisdiction of the United States against
Page 280 - Neither party will ever obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the contemplated Canal. Neither will ever erect or maintain any fortification commanding the same, or
Page 250 - of the extent of territory granted by His Catholic Majesty to the English, for the uses specified in the third Article of the present Convention ; and in addition to the country already granted to them in virtue of the stipulations agreed upon by the Commissioners of the two Crowns in
Page 283 - positively and efficaciously the entire neutrality of the same, so long as it shall remain under the control of citizens of the United States, and so long as the United States shall enjoy the privileges secured to them in the preceding section of this Article.
Page 274 - independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered subjects for further colonization by any European
Page 250 - His Britannic Majesty's subjects and the other colonists who have hitherto enjoyed the protection of England, shall evacuate the country of the Mosquitoes, as well as the Continent in general, and the Islands adjacent, without exception,
Page 332 - discovery of a strait into the Indian Ocean," says Prescott, " was the burden of every order from the Government. The discovery of an Indian passage is the true key to the maritime movements of the fifteenth, and the first half of the sixteenth centuries.
Page 365 - The difference is not so great as between the ancient Greek and his degenerate descendant, lounging among the master-pieces of Art, which he has scarcely taste enough to admire—speaking the language of those still more imperishable monuments of literature which he has hardly capacity to comprehend.