Mr. Hay to
Doctor Herran.
Department of State,
Washington, November 6,
1903.
Dear Doctor Herran: I inclose copy of a
dispatch which has today been sent to our minister at Bogotá.
Very sincerely, yours,
[Inclosure.]
Mr. Hay to
Mr. Beaupré.
[Telegram,]
Beaupré, Bogotá:
The people of Panama having by an apparently unanimous movement
dissolved their political connection with the Republic of
Colombia and resumed their independence, and having adopted a
government of their own, republican in form, with which the
Government of the United States of America has entered into
relations, the President of the United States, in accordance
with the ties of friendship which have so long and so happily
existed between the respective nations, most earnestly commends
to the governments of Colombia and Panama the peaceful and
equitable settlement of all questions at issue between them. He
holds that he is bound not merely by treaty obligations, but by
the interests of civilization, to see that the peaceable traffic
of the world across the Isthmus of Panama shall not longer be
disturbed by a constant succession of unnecessary and wasteful
civil wars.
