Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1829-04-10
Vol. HI.
PANAMA DOCUMENTS.


which snail De observed DclWeCn any TWO vi tiic
American nations who may agree to it, in regard
to their mutual navigation, when employed in trans
porting their respective produce and manufactures
Under this form it was proposed by the U. States,
on the Sd March 5, see 4th vol. OF the Laws
page 824 10 all nations. On the Cd OF July, Of
the same year, il was engra6ed the Convention
with Great Britain see 9th vol. of the Laws, page
Go3.1 Subsequently it was applied to the Neither
lands, the Imperial lianseatlc cities of Hamburg
Lubbock and Bremen, the Dukedom of Oldenburg,
Norway, Sardinia, and Russia see Acts LIST Session,
18th Congress, page a 1t was also embraced in
our treaty with Sweden, of 1916, see 9th vol. OF
the Laws page 6i9 and has recently been agreed
TO BY Columbus, In the event OF a concurrence IN
the principle, in this more limited import, the Arst,
second and third articles of the before mentioned
Convention with Great Britain will furnish models
which may be followed in the draft Of those to
which you are authorized to agree. These three
articles embrace other subjects besides that priici-
pie, but they such as to have either direct
connexion with it, are necessary to give tpli and
complete effect to it. In describing the territories OF
the new Amer lean States with which we are % main
tain hereafter commercial intercourse, you will
see the proprety of employing, in any treaty which
YOU may conclude, such terms as may embrace
whatever territories, insuiar or continental, may
apperain to each upon the termination of the pres
ent war During its further progress possessions
may be won or lost, which, as the case may be,
should be comprchendcd or excluded by those
terms.
In December, 1898, the then President of the
United States his annual message, upon the open
in. Of Congress, announced principle applca-
lie to this Continent, what ought hereafter to be
insisted upon, that no European nation ought to be
allowed to plant upon it new colonies. 1t was not
proposed. by that principle, to disturb pre-exisng
European colonies already established in America !;
the principle looked forward, not backward Sew
eral Of the new American States have given inma-
TONS oftheir concurrence in the principle and 1t
- believed that it must command the assent OF the
impartial world. Whilst America was comparative
" boundless waste and an almost unpeopled de
sert claimed and probably first settled with civil
lied men by European powers who discovered II, II
they could agree among themselves as to the limits
of their respective Territories, there was no Ameri
can State to oppose, or whose rights would be ef-
fected bv the establishment ofnew colonies. But
now the case is entirely altered from the North
Eastern limits ofthe United States in North Amer
ca to Cane Horn in South America, on the Atlantic
ocean, with one or two inconsiderable exceptions
and from the same Cape 10 the fifty first degree o
North latitude in North America on the Pacific
ocean, without any exception, the whole coasts an'
countries belong to sovereign resident American
powers. There s therefore, no chasm within The
described limits 10 which European colon,
could be now introduced, without violating the terri
turial rights of some American State
An attempt to establish such a colony, and by i.
establishment to acquire sovereign rights Tor an
European power, must be regarded as aninadnlsSa
bic encroachment. If any portion of the peopi
Of Europe driven by oppression from their nat'v
country, or acuated by the desire OF improving th
condition of themselves or their pnsterity, wish {
migrate to America, it will no doubt be the polio
of all the new states, as it ever has been ours,
afford them an asylum, and by naturalization, to e,
tend to such Of them as worthy, the same poll
ioal privileges which are enjoyed by the native @
izpn But this faculty of emigration cannot be a
lowed to draw after it the right Of the Europei
State of which such emigrant5 shall have been .
tive to acquire Sovereign powers IN America II
ruleis good by which one, in Judging of another
conduct or pretentions. is advised to reverse pos
t;ons What would Europe think of an Amer!c
atemnt to plant there American Colony If
pride would be provoked, and It's power exerte
to repress and punish such presunPtuous act. It
high time that Il should be recollected and felt II
Americans themselves descended from European
have also their sensibllitles and their rights.
TO prevent any such pew European Coloni
and t. warn Europe beforehand that they are
hereafter to be admitted, the President wishes y
70 propose Joint declaration of the several Anne
can States, each however, acting for and bind
onlv itself that within the limits of their respect
territories, no new European Colony will hereafter
allowed to be established 1t is not inten1edto CO
mt the parties, who may concur in that declarati
10 the support of the particular boundaries VIII
NAV be claimed by any one OF them nor IS it p
nosed to commit them 10 a JOINT resistance aga
ary future attempt to plant new European Colo
MS believed that the moral effect alone of j
declaration, emenating from the authority OF all
American nations, will etfecually serve to prev
the effort to establish any such new Colony
If il should not, and the attempt should actually
made, it will then be time enough for the Ameri