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Excerpt from Lossing's History of the United States of America, Vol. 7 of 8: From the Aboriginal Times to the Present Day In regard to the Panama Canal, the United States contested the right of any European Power to guarantee its neutrality, maintaining that the United States had the sole right so to do. It intimated its intention of withdrawing from the clayton-bulwer Treaty with England, wherein a joint guarantee of those Powers had been established. This intimation was made by the United States because of the great change in affairs since that treaty had gone into effect. At that time our country had made concessions to England because of resources and wealth too limited to enable her to assume so arduous an undertaking. But the United States is now larger, its wealth has increased, and its population has more than doubled. And its larger interests and pos sessions make it essential that the neutrality of the canal should not be guar anteed by foreign powers alone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.