Book/Printed Material A chapter of national dishonor, Copy 2
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Image 2 of Copy 2- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 3 of Copy 2 If 1566 .C44 Copy 2 C44 A CHAPTER OF NATIONAL. DISHONOR By LEANDER T. CHAMBERLAIN Reprinted from The North American Review and incorporated at Senator Hitchcock s request as a SENATE S…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 4 of Copy 2 ^%6 G^^ M Transferred from L.tbmriao 3 Offic-S. gB n is;*! 5- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 5 of Copy 2 A CHAPTER OF NATIONAL DISHONOR In a recent public statement ex-President Roosevelt declares It must be a matter of pride to every honest American proud of the good name of his country,…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 6 of Copy 2 precisely such as had been issued again and again in preceding years, 1900, 1901 and 1902, for instance. Every man who at any state has opposed or condemned the action actually taken…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 7 of Copy 2 his personal act. As reported, he then said: I am interested in the Panama Canal be- cause I started it. If I had followed tradi- tional, conservative methods, I v^ould have submitted…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 8 of Copy 2 departure from it was justified and even re- quired in the present instance. These rea- sons embrace, first, our treaty rights second, our national interest and safety; and third, the interests of…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 9 of Copy 2 lied, and that the requirements of justice are travestied, will be far more. Certain fundamental considerations must be taken into account in any worthy discus- sion of the conduct of governments. First,…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 10 of Copy 2 more than twice the area of Spain and Por- tugal combined. Her population was at least 4,000,000, or approximately twice that of Norway. Bordering on both the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific,…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 11 of Copy 2 pany was formed to take over the existing canal rights and obligations, and to complete the undertaking. But the new company also proved unequal to the task; and as early as 1897…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 12 of Copy 2 10 each other, by means of a treaty or general convention of peace and friendship, commerce and navigation. Article I. There shall be a perfect, firm, and inviol- able peace and sincere…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 13 of Copy 2 II in a future time while this treaty exists; and in cons- equence the United States also guarantee in the same manner the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada has…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 14 of Copy 2 12 be religiously observed a treaty decreeing s. perfect, firm, and inviolable peace and sin- cere friendship between the two nations; a treaty in which, as compensation for spe- cified advantages and…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 15 of Copy 2 13 ment must exist there to protect the works which shall be constructed. New Granada is not a power which will ex- cite the jealously of any nation. The neutrality guaranteed to…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 16 of Copy 2 14 of the United States to render such aid^ is in the fact that by the treaty of 1846 New Gra- nada distinctly pledged herself to keep the said transit inviolate for…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 17 of Copy 2 15 favor received, is the original and sufficing basis for the right and obligation of helpful interference by the United States, in the emergency of transit interruption. A cor- roborative, complementary basis…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 18 of Copy 2 i6 forces on Colombia s soil, or even threaten such landing, than she might land her forces, or threaten to land them, on the soil of Rusia or Japan. Nor is even…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 19 of Copy 2 17 his ward s possessions and assume dictator- ial control. It were as if an officer of the law sworn to uphold the citizen s rights, and to lay violent hands on…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 20 of Copy 2 i8 of Colombia in 1863 to the Panama im- broglio of 1903, Isthmian transit was so dis- turbed that the interference of the United was required In March, 1865, our Panama consul…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 21 of Copy 2 IQ exceed 824 men. Moreover, in four out of the seven instances there was no interrup- tion of transit, only an apprehension of peril to persons and property. In fine. Isthmian transit…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 22 of Copy 2 20 the President to acquire, if possible, at a cost not to exceed a certain sum, the rights, pri- vileges, frachises, concessions, and all other assets of the New Panama Company and…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 23 of Copy 2 21 the right to construct and operate a canal for a period of one hundred years, renewable at the option of the United States for periods of a similar duration. The convention…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 24 of Copy 2 22 ratification, not only not to oppose its con- summation, but also to do nothing in con- travention of its terms. That is true of governments in the limited sense of the…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 25 of Copy 2 23 cuss all offered amendm/iiets. Yet even be- fore the Colombian Senate convened, the American minister to Colombia, on April 24, 1903, addressed the following note to the Colombian Minister of Foreign…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 26 of Copy 2 24 the final expression of the opinion or in- tention of the Washington Government. The warning proceeded If Colombia desires to maintain the friendly relations which at present exist between the two…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 27 of Copy 2 25 ternational Was it as free from scandal as the public acts of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln In utmost soberness of inquiry, did any civilized representative of superior power ever indulge…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 28 of Copy 2 26 manded by every ethical consideration, and should be a matter of pride to every honest American After long and vehement debate and post- ponement to an extra session, the American Senate,…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 29 of Copy 2 27 ty (of Colombia) and disavows any intention to impair it in any way whatever. Would the constitutional authorities in the Senate of the United States be likely to hold other- wise…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 30 of Copy 2 28 ing up the construction of an Isthmian waterway, and thus being the better able to €xact terms from the United States. Further, what was only a report of the Colombian Senate…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 31 of Copy 2 29 The Administration s official statement continues This programme, if not expressly, was at least tacitly- adopted by the Colombian Congress. It was a scheme to which this government could not possibly…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 32 of Copy 2 30 his vindication by a reference to practical results. He says: Be it remembered that unless I had acted exactly as I did act, there would now be no Panama Canal Every…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 33 of Copy 2 31 terms, were thus confident without a ve- stige of reason! He himself had already declared Colombia, after having rejected the treaty in spite of our protests and warning when it was…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 34 of Copy 2 3^ Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington of~^ ficially declared: The necessity of the canal is so well recognised in Colombia that it was proposed in the discussion in the Senate to amend the…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 35 of Copy 2 33 Who can doubt that, if the President had curbed his angry impatience, and withheld his irritating, insolent threats, Colombia s Senate would have acceded to terms rightly- advantageous to both countries?…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 36 of Copy 2 34 might be acquired by lawful means. Being enthusiastically in favor of an interoceanic waterway, they only demanded that a de- cent respect for the opinion of mankind/ a substantial regard for…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 37 of Copy 2 35 Prevent landing of any armed force, either government or insurgent, within fifty miles of Panama. That is, in time of profound peace between Colombia and the United States; while the treaty…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 38 of Copy 2 36 war against the very nation of which the United States was the sworn ally, and to which the United States was united by ob- ligations admittedly paramount. He bound Colombia hand…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 39 of Copy 2 37 course upon her own responsibility, and that the United States would interfere if free transit was interrupted. On November 20, 1901, this telegram was sent to our Panama consul: Notify all…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915
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Image 40 of Copy 2 38 Here, again, was a merely admonitory order, sent to forestall any use of the transit line which would destroy its legitimate function by making it, unnecessarily, the scene of armed conflict.…- Contributor: Chamberlain, L. T. (Leander Trowbridge)
- Date: 1915