The Recognition Policy of the United StatesColumbia University, 1915 - 223 pages |
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acknowledgment action Adams administration affairs agents alliance American revolution attitude authority basis Britain British Buenos Ayres character chargé d'affaires Clay Colombia colonies commissioners conception Confederate Cong Congress Count Vergennes declaration definite denied diplomatic doctrine effect ernment established European existing fact facto principle facto theory favor force foreign formal France French Grotius Hamilton Henry Clay Ibid ideas independence indicated instructions international law intervention Jefferson John Quincy Adams jure juristic King later legitimacy legitimate legitimist letters of credence matter ment merely Mexican Mexico minister monarchic Monarchomachs Monroe nation natural law negotiations neutrality non-intervention normative obligations ognition Ph.D political popular President Price protest question of recognition recognition policy recognize regard régime relations republic revolution revolutionary sess Seward situation South American sovereign sovereignty Spain Spanish Texas tion treaty United Vergennes violation W. J. ASHLEY Wharton
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Page 100 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Page 135 - When we regard, then, the great length of time which this war has been prosecuted, the complete success which has attended it in favor of the Provinces, the present condition of the parties, and the utter inability of Spain to produce any change in it, we are compelled to conclude that its fate is settled, and that the Provinces which have declared their independence and are in the enjoyment of it ought to be recognized.
Page 100 - I hold it, that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world, as storms in the physical.
Page 163 - I recommend that an act be passed authorizing reprisals, and the use of the naval force of the United States by the Executive against Mexico to enforce them, in the event of a refusal by the Mexican Government to come to an amicable adjustment of the matters in controversy between us upon another demand thereof made from on board one of our vessels of war on the coast of Mexico.
Page 102 - ... acknowledged in like manner. With such a government every kind of business may be done. But there are some matters which I conceive might be transacted with a government de facto ; such, for instance, as the reforming the unfriendly restrictions on our commerce and navigation. Such cases you will readily distinguish as they occur.
Page 199 - The policy of the United States [he wrote] is settled upon the principle that revolutions in republican states ought not to be accepted until the people have adopted them by organic law with the solemnities which would seem sufficient to guarantee their stability and permanency.
Page 102 - It accords with our principles to acknowledge any government to be rightful, which is formed by the will of the nation substantially declared.
Page 161 - States with foreign powers, expressing the opinion that ' ' the State of Texas having established and maintained an independent government capable of performing those duties, foreign and domestic, which appertain to independent governments, and it appearing that there is no longer any reasonable prospect of the successful prosecution of the war by Mexico against said State, it is expedient and proper and in conformity with the laws of nations and the practice of this Government in like cases that...
Page 163 - ... of our citizens, upon the officers and flag of the United States, independent of recent insults to this government and people by the late extraordinary Mexican minister, would justify in the eyes of all nations immediate war.
Page 123 - Whatever form of government any society of people adopts, whoever they acknowledge as their sovereign, we consider that government or that sovereign as the one to be acknowledged by us. We have invariably abstained from assuming a right to decide in favor of the sovereign de jure, and against the sovereign de facto. That is a question for the nation in which it arises to determine. And, so far as we are concerned, the sovereign de facto is the sovereign de jure. Our own revolution stands on the basis...