 If the work should ever be executed so as to admit of the passage of sea vessels from ocean to ocean, the benefits of it ought not to be exclusively appropriated to any one nation, but should be extended to all parts of the globe upon the payment of a...  American Diplomacy: Its Spirit and Achievements - Page 82by John Bassett Moore - 1905 - 285 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1897 - 808 pages
...United States would not be one of exclusive control. "If the work should ever be executed," he said, "the benefits of it ought not to be exclusively appropriated...should be extended to all parts of the globe upon payment of just compensation or reasonable tolls."* The concession was granted to Mr. Palmer, of New... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1835 - 624 pages
...the work should ever be executed, so as to admit of the p;issage of sea vessels from ocean to ocean, the benefits of it ought not to be exclusively appropriated...payment of a just compensation, or reasonable tolls. What is most desirable, at present, is, to possess the data necessary to form a correct judgment of... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1830 - 628 pages
...the work should ever be executed, so as to admit of the passage of sea vessels from ocean to ocean, the benefits of it ought not to be exclusively appropriated...payment of a just compensation, or reasonable tolls. What is most desirable, at present, is, to possess the data necessary to form a correct judgment of... | |
 | Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - 1829 - 1336 pages
...the Work should ever be executed, so as to admit of the passage of Sea- Vessels from Ocean to Ocean, the benefits of it ought not to be exclusively appropriated...payment of a just compensation, or reasonable tolls. What is most desirable at present is, to possess the data necessary to form a correct judgment of the... | |
 | 1843 - 602 pages
...it was stated that if the work should ever be executed so as to admit of the passage of seavessels, the benefits of it ought not to be exclusively appropriated...payment of a just compensation or reasonable tolls. Our ministers were consequently directed to state to the ministers of the other American powers, that... | |
 | 1843 - 610 pages
...it was stated that if the work should ever be executed so as to admit of the passage of seavessels, the benefits of it ought not to be exclusively appropriated...payment of a just compensation or reasonable tolls. Our ministers were consequently directed to state to the ministers of the other American powers, that... | |
 | American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines - 1928 - 901 pages
...commissioners, bearing this instruction from Henry Clay, secretary of state: "The benefits (of a canal) ought not to be exclusively appropriated to any one...payment of a just compensation or reasonable tolls." The commissioners reached Panama after the congress, which never reassembled, had adjourned. A senate... | |
 | Freeman Hunt - 1843 - 620 pages
...it was stated that if the work should ever be executed so as to admit of the passage of seavesscls, the benefits of it ought not to be exclusively appropriated...nation, but should be extended to all parts of the glober, upon the payment of a just compensation or reasonable tolls. Our ministers were consequently... | |
 | John Middleton Clayton - 1853 - 54 pages
...stated that, if the work [a canal] should ever be executed so as to admit of the passage of sea-vessels, the benefits of it ought not to be exclusively appropriated...payment of a just compensation or reasonable tolls." By recurring to the instructions given to our ministers to Panama by Mr. Clay in 1826, it will be seen... | |
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