 | United States. Dept. of the Interior - 1858 - 428 pages
...justify the act by the pretension that these avenues of trade and travel belong to them, and that they choose to shut them, or what is almost equivalent, to encumber them with such unjust regulations as would prevent their general use. The United States do not seek either the control or... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1859 - 824 pages
...justify the act by the pretension that these avenues of trade and travel belong to them, and that they choose to shut them, or what is almost equivalent, to encumber them with such unjust regulations as would prevent their general use. The United States do not seek either the control or... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1882 - 212 pages
...justify the act by the pretension that these avenues of trade and travel belong to then}, and that they choose to shut them, or, what is almost equivalent, to encumber them with such unjust regulations as would prevent their general use. The United States do not seek either the control or... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1885 - 376 pages
...justify the act by the pretension that these avenues of trade and travel belong to them, and that they choose to shut them, or, what is almost equivalent, to encumber them with such unjust regulations as would prevent their general use. The United States do not seek either the control or... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1886 - 846 pages
...the pretension that these avenues of trade and travel belong to them, and that they choose, to shot them, or, what is almost equivalent, to encumber them with such unjust regulations as would prevent their general use." Mr. Casa, Sec. of State, to Mr. Lamar, July 25, 1858.... | |
 | 1900 - 580 pages
...justify the act by the pretension that these avenues of trade and travel belong to them, and that they choose to shut them, or, what is almost equivalent, to encumber them with such unjust regulations as would prevent their general use. The United States do not seek either the control or... | |
 | 1904 - 498 pages
...the pretension that these avenues of trade and travel belong to them, and that they choose to shut, or, what is almost equivalent, to encumber them with...unjust relations as would prevent their general use." Forty-six years had passed since that opinion was expressed, and during that time no progress had been... | |
 | 1903 - 406 pages
...justify the act by the pretention that these avenues of trade and travel belong to them and that they choose to shut them, or what is almost equivalent,...relations as would prevent their general use." The time had apparently come to stand upon this declaration or abandon the canal. The question was, should... | |
 | Elihu Root - 1904 - 48 pages
...justify the act by the pretention that these avenues of trade and travel belong to them and that they choose to shut them, or what is almost equivalent,...relations as would prevent their general use." The time had apparently come to stand upon this declaration or abandon the canal. The question was, should... | |
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... more regard to the just demands of other nations than they have been, would be permitted, in a spirit of Eastern isolation, to close the gates of intercourse on the great highways of the world, and justify the act by the pretension that these avenues... 
