The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1826-03-30
lsanama Nfsstom.
WAsHIyeroN, March Is. 1896


Gated to the House ofRepresentatives
TO the House Of Representatives. of the United
States WASHINGTON, 18th March, 1926.
In compliance with the resolution of the
House of the 5th ult- requesting me to cause
to be laid before the House so much of the
correspondence between the United States
and the new States Of America or their Mi.
n,sters, respecting the proposed Congress,
or meeting OF diplomatic Agents at Pana-
ma, and such information respecting the
general character of that expected Con-
gress as may be in my possession, and rs
may in my opinion be communicated with
out prejudice to the public interest; and al
80 to inform the House so far as, in my o.
pinion, the public interest may allow, in re-
gard to what objects the Agents of the u
nited States are expected to take part in
the deliberations of that Congress. | now
transmit to the House report from the Sc
c-etary Of State, with the correspondence
and information requestedby the resolution.
With regard TO the objects in which the
Agents of the United States are expected
60 take part i'll the deliberations of that
Congress, deem it proper to promise, that
these objects did not form the only, nor G.
ven the principal motive for my acceptance
Of the invitation. Ny first and greatest in
ducement was, TO meet in the spirit of Kind.
ness and friendship, an overture made in
that spirit b. three sister Republics of this
hemisphere.
The great revolution in human affairs
which has brought into existence nearly at
the same time eight sovereign and indie :
pendent nations In our own quarter of the
globe, has placed the United States IN ST.
tuation not less novel, and scarcely less in
teresting, than that in which they had found
themselves by their own transition from
cluster oscolonies to nation of sovereign
States. The deliverance of the Southern A.
nerican Republics from the oppression un-
der which they had been so long afflicted.
was hailed with great unanimity by the
people of this Union, as among the most
aIispicious events of the age. On the 4th
of May, 1922, an act of Congress made an
appropriation of one hundred thousand dol
lars for such missions to the independent
nations of the American continent, rs the
President of the United States might deem
proper.
In exercising the authority recognised by
this act, my predecessor, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, appoint
cd, successfully, Ministers Plenpotentiary
,othe Republics sofColombia, Buenos Ayres.
Chill, and Mexico. Unwilling to raise a.
mong the fraternity of freedom questions
of precedency and etiquette, which even
the European monarchs had of late found
it necessary in great measure to discard,
he despatched these Ministers to Colombia.
Buenos Ayres, and Chill, without exact
ing from those Republics, as by the an
cient principles Of political primogeniture
nc might have done, that the compliment
ola Plenipotentiary Mission should have
been paid frSt by them to the U. States.
The instructions prepared under his di-
rectiOn TO Mr.. Anderson, the first of our
Ministers 10 the Southern continent, con-
tain al much length the general principles
upon which he thought it desirable that our
relations, political and commercial, with
these orr new neighbors, should be es
1abished for their benefit and ours, and that
of the future ages OF our posterity. A co.
Nv of so much Of these instructions ms re-
lates to these general subjects is among
she papers row transmitted to the House.
Similar instructions were furnished to the !
Ministers appointed to Buenos -Ayres, Chi. |
il, and Mexico; and the system of social in |
tercourse which it was the purpose ofthose
missions to establish from the first opening
ofour diplomatic relations with those rising |
nations, is the most effective exposition ofthe |
principles upon which the invitation TO the 1
Congress of Panama has been accepted by |
me, as well as of the OBJECTS ofnegociation
~ that meeting in which II was expected |
that our plenipotentiaries should take part. !
The House will perceive that even at the !
date OF these Instructions, the first treaties |
bcr:ecn some Of the Southern RenubEcs |
h7d been concluded, by which they had sti. !
pu'ated among themselves this diplomatic
assembly at Panama. And it will be seen
with whs caution, so far as il might con- |
cern the ,licy Of the United States. and. a,
the same time, with what frankness and
good will towards those nations. he gave |
countcnance to their design of inviting the
UnI;ed States TO this high assembly, for
sorsul;ation upon .7meriouR interests. II
wa not considered conclusive reason for
declining this invitation, that the proposal
Of ssembling such Congress had not first |
been made by ourselves. II had sprung J
from the urgent. immediate. and morsan,a. |,
~ common intcro sts OF the gfss. com,n,.,,;
ties struggling for indepep' encc ana ~, !,
were, quickening into be. From them m',be
proposition TO US appeared respectful and
friendly j'roD US to them il could scarce
ly have been made, without exposing our.