The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-04-27
PANAMA MISSION.
WASHINGTON, March 19, 1872

WASHINGTON, March IS, 1926.
The following Message from the President
of the United States, was yesterday commu-
nicated to the House of Representatives
70 the House Of Representatives Of the u
nited States
WAsuISGroS, March Is, 1926
In compliance with the resolution of the
House of the 5th Feb, requesting me TO
lay before the House SO much OF the cores
pondence between the United States, and
the new States of America or their Minis
tters, respecting the proposed Congress, or
meeting of diplomatic Agents at Panama,
and such information respecting the general
character Of that expected Congress as may
be in my possession, and as may in my opln-
ion be communicated without prejudice to
the public interest and alse to inform the
House so far as, in my opinion, the public
interest may allow, in regard to what OBJECTS
the agents Of the U. S. are expected to take
part in the deliberations Of that Congress.
now transmit to the House report from the
Secretary of State, with the correspondence
and information requested by the resolution
With regard to the objects in which the
Agents of the United States are expected
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Congress, 7 deem it proper to premise, that
these objects did not form the only, nor e.
ven the principal motive fer nv acceptance
of the invitation Ny first and greatest in
ducement was. TO meet in the spirit of kind
ness and friendship, an overture NJ, ,.'e in
that spirit by three sister republics OF this
hemisphere.
The great revolution in human affairs
which has brought into existence nearly at
4 the same time, eight sovereign and indepen
dent nations in eur own quarter OF the globe,
has placed the United States in a situation
not less novel, and scarcely less interesting,
than that in which they had found them
selves by their own transition from clus-
tor of colonies to nation of sovereign states
The tleliverance Of the South American re-
publics from the oppression under which
they had been so long afflicted, was hailed
with great unanimitv by the people Of this
Union, as among the most auspicious events
of the age. Or the 9Th of May, 1892, IN
act of Congress made an appropriation oi
one hundred thousand dollars for such mis-.
sions to the independent nations of the A.
merican continent, as the President of the
United States might deem proper.
Tn exercising the authority recognized BY
this act, nv predecessor, bv and with the
advice and consent of the S7natc, appoint
ed, snccessivey, Ministers Plenipotcntary
to the Republics of Colombia, Buenos Ay-
res, Chill and Mexico. Unwilling to raise
among the fraternity of Freedom questions
of prcccdcncy and etiquette, which even
the European monarchs had of late found it
necessary in great measure to discard, re
DESPATCHED these Ministers to Colombia
Buenos Avres and Chill, without exacting
Com those Republics, as bv the ancient
principles of political primogenture he
might have done, that the compliment of a
Plenipotentiarv Mission should have been
paid first by them to the United States.
The Instructions prepared under his di-
rection to Mr.. Anderson, the first If our Min
sters to the Southern Continent, contain al
mnch length the general principles upor
which he thought it desirable that our rcla-
, tions, political and commercial. with these
our new neighbours. should be established
for their benefit and ours. and that Of the fu.
tnre ages of our postertv, A copy Of 81
much of these Instructions as relates to these
general subjects is among the papers nov
transmitted to the House Similar instruc
tions were furnished to the Minister'S ap
pointed to Bu"nos Avrrs, Chilli and MeXico;
& the system of social intercourse which wa
the purpose Of those missions to establish
from the first opening of Our diplomatic re
lations with those rising nations, is the mos
, effective exposition Of the principles upor
which the invitation to the Congress Of Pa
mama has peen accepted by me, as well as o
the objects of negotiation at that meeting il
which it was expected that our Plenpoten,
tiaries. should take part.
The House will perceive that even at the
date of these instructions, the first treaties
between some Of the Southern Republics hat
been concluded, by which they had stipulat
cd among themselves this diplomatic as
semblv at Panama. And it will be seer
with what caution, so far as it might concern
the policy of the United States, and at the
same time, with what trankness aud goot
will towards those nations, he gave counte
nance to their dcsign Of inviting the United
States to this high assembly. for consultation
upon american interests. 1t was not consid
cred conclusive reason for declining thi
invitation, that the proposals of assembling
such 4 Congress had not first been made b,
ourselves. 1t had sprung from the urgent
immediate, and momentary common Interests
OF the great communities struggling for indie
pendcncc, and, as it were, quckening, into
life. From them, the proposition to us
appeared respectful and friendly; from
us to them it could scarcely have beel
made, without exposing ourselves to suspi
cions of purposes of ambition, If not of domi
nation, more suited to rouse resistance, anc
excite distrust, than to conciliate favor ant