The Atlantic & Pacific Ship-railway Across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in Mexico: Considered Commercially, Politically & ConstructivelyBowne & Company, printers, 1886 - 80 lappuses |
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46th Congress 66 Isthmus advantages American Isthmus amount Atlantic and Pacific basin built Cape Horn Panama cargoes on board Caribbean Sea carriage carried cent civil engineer coal Coatzacoalcos River commerce committee Company concession Congress construction cylinders deflection distance Eads enterprise equal Europe expenses favor feet fifty freight girders Government greater guarantee Gulf Gulf of Mexico haul hundred hydraulic rams important inches increase interoceanic Isthmus of Panama Isthmus of Tehuantepec length letter lifting Liverpool loaded ship locomotives Mexican Mexico miles per hour Mississippi nations Nicaragua ocean ordinary Pacific coast Pacific Ocean Plate pontoon port practicability railroad rails railway Republic River road-bed sailing vessels sea-going ship canals ship-railway side Sir Edward says speed steamer strain Suez Canal Tarifa Tehuantepec Isthmus Tehuantepec Route thousand miles tion tonnage tons trade transit transit-way transportation turn-tables United valley voyage weight whole winds York
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10. lappuse - What the United States want in Central America, next to the happiness of its people, is the security and neutrality of the interoceanic routes which lead through it.
15. lappuse - Maintaining, as I do, the tenets of a line of precedents from Washington's day, which proscribe entangling alliances with foreign states, I do not favor a policy of acquisition of new and distant territory or the incorporation of remote interests with our own.
14. lappuse - Granada, by the present stipulation, the perfect neutrality of the before-mentioned isthmus, with the view that the free transit from the one to the other sea may not be interrupted or embarrassed in any future time while this treaty exists; and, in consequence, the United States also guarantee, in the same manner, the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada has and possesses over the said territory.
11. lappuse - An interoceanic canal across the American isthmus will essentially change the geographical relations between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, and between the United States and the rest of the world.
15. lappuse - The laws of progress aro vital and organic, and we must be conscious of that irresistible tide of commercial expansion which, as the concomitant of our active civilization, day by day is being urged onward by those increasing facilities of production, transportation, and communication to which steam and electricity have given birth; but our duty in the present instructs us to address ourselves mainly to the development of the vast resources of the great...
16. lappuse - ... trust for mankind, to be removed from the chance of domination by any single power, nor become a point of invitation for hostilities or a prize for warlike ambition.
7. lappuse - There are mountains, it is true, but there are likewise hands ; let but the resolve be formed to make the passage, and it can be made. If inclination be not wanting, there will be no want of means : the Indies, to which the passage is to be made, will supply them. To a King of Spain, with the wealth of the Indies at his command,, when the object to be attained is the spice trade, that which is possible is, in fact, easy.
8. lappuse - A cut or canal for purposes of navigation, somewhere through the Isthmus that connects the two Americas, to unite the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, will form a proper subject of consideration at the Congress.
11. lappuse - Pacific shores, and virtually a part of the coast line of the United States. Our merely commercial interest in it is greater than that of all other countries, while its relations to our power and prosperity as a nation, to our means of defense, our unity, peace, and safety, are matters of paramount concern to the people of the United States. No other great power would under similar circumstances fail to assert a rightful control over a work so closely and vitally affecting its interest and welfare.
16. lappuse - ... inherent in the consolidation of wealth and power in the hands of vast corporations. These suggestions may serve to emphasize what I have already said, on the score of the necessity of a neutralization of a../ interoceanic transit; and this can only be accomplished, by making the uses of the route open to all nations and subject to the ambitious and warlike necessities of none.