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El Salvador (El Salvador) (search for this): entry taylor-zachary
, for the advice of the Senate in regard to its ratification, a general treaty of amity, navigation, and commerce negotiated by Mr. Squier with the republic of San Salvador. I also transmit to the Senate a copy of the instructions to and correspondence with the said charge d'affaires relating to those treaties. I also transmThese instructions, which also state the dissolution of the Central American republic, formerly composed of the five states of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, San Salvador, and Guatemala, and their continued separation, authorize Mr. Hise to conclude treaties of commerce with the republics of Guatemala and San Salvador, but conclSan Salvador, but conclude with saying that it was not deemed advisable to empower Mr. Hise to conclude a treaty with either Nicaragua, Honduras, or Costa Rica until more full and statistical information should have been communicated by him to the Department in regard to those states than that which it possesses. The states of Nicaragua, Costa Rica
South America (search for this): entry taylor-zachary
he Senate without division: Resolved, that the President of the United States be respectfully requested to consider the expediency of opening negotiations with the governments of Central America and New Granada for the purpose of effectually protecting by suitable treaty stipulations with them, such individuals or companies as may undertake to open a communication between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by the construction of a ship-canal across the isthmus which connects North and South America, and of securing forever by such stipulations the free and equal rights of navigating such a canal to all such nations on the payment of such reasonable tolls as may be established to compensate the capitalists who may engage in such undertaking and complete the work. President Jackson accorded with the policy suggested in this resolution, and in pursuance of it sent Charles Biddle as agent to negotiate with the governments of Central America and New Granada. The result is fully se
California (California, United States) (search for this): entry taylor-zachary
gaged in the negotiation for the purchase of California, as an unfortunate coincidence, and one calcpossession was taken after our occupation of California, when the effect of it was to obstruct or cohan by my lamented predecessor. Status of California, New Mexico, and Texas. On June, 23, 1850tches to California, and certain officers to California and New Mexico, whose duties are particularl of domestic policy adopted by the people of California must originate solely with themselves; that to laws passed by any supposed government in California or of any census taken in either of the Terrn the power of Congress, by the admission of California and New Mexico as States, to remove all occaion before any communication from me reached California. If the proposed constitution shall, when treaty of cession. Should Congress, when California shall present herself for incorporation intoerritory which lies eastward of the new State of California; and the reasons for my opinion that Ne[4 more...]
Pacific Ocean (search for this): entry taylor-zachary
being made by certain private citizens of the United States to procure from the state of Nicaragua by contract the right to cut the proposed ship-canal by the way of the river San Juan and the lakes of Nicaragua and Managua to Realejo, on the Pacific Ocean. A company of American citizens entered into such a contract with the state of Nicaragua. Viewing the canal as a matter of great importance to the people of the United States, I resolved to adopt the policy of protecting the work and bindineived it. He did not acknowledge it. The twelfth article of the treaty negotiated by Mr. Hise in effect guarantees the perfect independence of the state of Nicaragua and her sovereignty over her alleged limits from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, pledging the naval and military power of the United States to support it. This treaty authorizes the chartering of a corporation by this government to cut a canal outside of the limits of the United States, and gives to us the exclusive rig
Central America (search for this): entry taylor-zachary
y with New Granada, was adopted in executive session by the Senate without division: Resolved, that the President of the United States be respectfully requested to consider the expediency of opening negotiations with the governments of Central America and New Granada for the purpose of effectually protecting by suitable treaty stipulations with them, such individuals or companies as may undertake to open a communication between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by the construction of a ship the capitalists who may engage in such undertaking and complete the work. President Jackson accorded with the policy suggested in this resolution, and in pursuance of it sent Charles Biddle as agent to negotiate with the governments of Central America and New Granada. The result is fully set forth in the report of a select committee of the House of Representatives of Feb. 20, 1849, upon a joint resolution of Congress to authorize the survey of certain routes for a canal or railroad betwe
Baton Rouge (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): entry taylor-zachary
q. v.). From 1836 to 1840 he served in Florida (see Seminole War), and in 1840 was appointed to the command of the 1st Department of the Army of the Southwest, with the rank of brevet brigadiergeneral. At that time he purchased an estate near Baton Rouge, to which he removed his family. After the annexation of Texas (q. v.), when war between the United States and Mexico seemed imminent, he was sent with General Taylor's residence at Baton Rouge. a considerable force into Texas to watch thBaton Rouge. a considerable force into Texas to watch the movements of the Mexicans. In March, 1846, he moved to the banks of the Rio Grande, opposite Matamoras, and in May engaged in two sharp battles with the Mexicans on Texas soil. He was then promoted to major-general. He entered Mexico May 18, 1846, and soon afterwards captured the stronghold of Monterey. He occupied strong positions, but remained quiet for some time, awaiting instructions from his government. Early in 1847 a requisition from General Scott deprived him of a large portion
Belize (Belize) (search for this): entry taylor-zachary
instructions were given to our minister in London in pursuance of the request contained in it. On March 3, 1847, Christopher Hempstead was appointed consul at Belize, and an application was then made for his exequatur through our minister in London, Mr. Bancroft. Lord Palmerston referred to Mr. Bancroft's application for an exher Britannic Majesty, by virtue of which he has discharged his consular functions. Thus far this government has recognized the existence of a British colony at Belize, within the territory of Honduras. I have recalled the consul, and have appointed no one to supply his place. On May 26, 1848, Mr. Hempstead represented in a letter to the Department of State that the Indians had applied to her Majesty's superintendent at Belize for protection, and had desired him to take possession of the territory which they occupied and take them under his protection as British subjects ; and he added that in the event of the success of their application the British
Monterey (California, United States) (search for this): entry taylor-zachary
nexation of Texas (q. v.), when war between the United States and Mexico seemed imminent, he was sent with General Taylor's residence at Baton Rouge. a considerable force into Texas to watch the movements of the Mexicans. In March, 1846, he moved to the banks of the Rio Grande, opposite Matamoras, and in May engaged in two sharp battles with the Mexicans on Texas soil. He was then promoted to major-general. He entered Mexico May 18, 1846, and soon afterwards captured the stronghold of Monterey. He occupied strong positions, but remained quiet for some time, awaiting instructions from his government. Early in 1847 a requisition from General Scott deprived him of a large portion of his troops, and he was ordered to act on the defensive only. While so doing, with about 5,000 men, he was confronted by Santa Ana with 20,000. Taylor defeated and dispersed the Mexicans in a severe battle at Buena Vista, Feb. 23, 1847. During the remainder of the war the valley of the Rio Grande rem
Salt Lake (Utah, United States) (search for this): entry taylor-zachary
and were already in active progress of execution before any communication from me reached California. If the proposed constitution shall, when submitted to Congress, be found to be in compliance with the requisitions of the Constitution of the United States, I earnestly recommend that it may receive the sanction of Congress. The part of California not included in the proposed State of that name is believed to be uninhabited, except in a settlement of our countrymen in the vicinity of Salt Lake. A claim has been advanced by the State of Texas to a very large portion of the most populous district of the Territory commonly designated by the name of New Mexico. If the people of New Mexico had formed a plan of a State government for that Territory as ceded by the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, and had been admitted by Congress as a State, our Constitution would have afforded the means of obtaining an adjustment of the question of boundary with Texas by a judicial decision. At pres
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry taylor-zachary
n political policy towards them, and the pretensions of Great Britain in Nicaragua: Washington, March 19, 1850. To threement were concluded by Captain Locke, on the part of Great Britain, with the commissioners of the state of Nicaragua in thy presented to and published by the House of Commons of Great Britain on July 3, 1848, herewith submitted. A copy of the sam, understanding that any such act will be considered by Great Britain as a declaration of open hostilities. By the sixth artwhich is herewith submitted, recites the aggressions of Great Britain and the seizure of a part of the Nicaraguan territory if the agreement of March 7, 1848, between the forces of Great Britain and the authorities of Nicaragua, Señor Francisco Castillon was appointed commissioner from Nicaragua to Great Britain, and on Nov. 5, 1848, while at Washington, on his way to Lond at the very moment when it was known, as I believe, to Great Britain that we were engaged in the negotiation for the purchas
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