(c) As a maritime power.
Lawrence Essays, pp. 139-147, 124, 129-132, Essay III; Great Britain Bluebook. U. S. No. 1, 1882: (Blaine and Frelinghuysen) U. S. 1858. (Napier to Cass). Frelinghuysen to Lowell, U. S. No. 5, 1882 Dana's Wheaton, Int. Law. note 105; Clayton-Bulwer treaty (cit. ut sup.) 5.
II. It would seriously complicate our foreign relations.
I. (a) With interested European powers.
(b) With American powers in general;
(c) With Colombia or Nicaragua in particular.
II. Probable development of a coast line.
(a) Possibility of interference by European powers.
III. Difficulties of neutralization by European and American powers: Taylor's message Dec. 1, 1849.
IV. Consequent discarding of Monroe doctrine.
III. A canal is already assured without the interference of the United States.
I. The Panama canal is a certainty. Rodriques' Panama Canal, 153-58; Nation, XLV, 3.
II. No other canal can be remunerative.
(a) The only remaining route is the Nicaraguan.
Rodriques, 18-30; Ammen, the Certainty of the Nicaraguan Canal.
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