Relations Between United States and Republic of Colombia PDF Download

Author: United States Department of State
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334246913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Excerpt from Relations Between United States and Republic of Colombia: Message From the President of the United States, Transmitting Report by the Secretary of State on the Subject of Relations Between the United States and the Republic of Colombia Mr. Root, writing to a succeeding Colombian minister on February '10, 1906, said: The real gravamen of your complaint is this espousal of the cause of Panama by the people of the United States. No arbitration could deal with the real rights and wrongs of the parties concerned unless it were to pass upon the question whether the cause thus espoused was just - Whether the people of Panama were exercising their just rights in declaring and maintaining their independence of Colombian rule. We assert and maintain the affirmative upon that question. We assert that. The ancient State of Panama, independent in its origin and by nature and history a separate political community, was confederated with the other States of Colombia upon terms e which preserved and continued its separate sovereignty; that it never surrendered that sovereignty; that in the year 1885 the compact which bound it to the other States of Colombia was broken and terminated by Colombia, and the Isthmus was subjugated '5 by force; that it was held under foreign domination to which it had never consented; q and that it was justly entitled to assert its sovereignty and demand its independence from a rule which was unlawful. Oppressive. And tyrannical. We can not ask the people of Panama to consent that this right of theirs. Which is vital to their political existence, shall be submitted to the decision of any arbitrator. Nor are we willing to permit any arbitrator to determine the political policy of the United States in following its sense of right and justice by espousing the cause of this weak people against the stronger Government of Colombia, which had so long held them in unlaw'ful subjection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.