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considered agreement was rejected by Colombia and 

 the revolution on the Isthmus ensued, one of Colom- 

 bia's first acts was to invoke the intervention of the 

 United States ; nor does her invitation appear to have 

 been confined to this Government alone. By a tele- 

 gram from Mr. Beaupre, our minister at Bogota, 

 of the 7th of November last, we were informed that 

 General Reyes would soon leave Panama invested 

 with full powers ; that he had telegraphed the Presi- 

 dent of Mexico to ask the Government of the United 

 States and all countries represented at the Pan- 

 American Conference "to aid Colombia to preserve 

 her integrity"; and that he had requested that the 

 Government of the United States should meanwhile 

 "preserve the neutrality and transit of the Isthmus" 

 and should "not recognize the new government." In 

 another telegram from Mr. Beaupre, which was sent 

 later in the day, this Government was asked whether 

 it would take action "to maintain Colombian right 

 and sovereignty on the Isthmus in accordance with 

 article 35 [of] the treaty of 1846" in case the Co- 

 lombian Government should be "entirely unable to 

 suppress the secession movement there." Here was 

 a direct solicitation to the United States to intervene 

 for the purpose of suppressing, contrary to the treaty 

 of 1846 as this Government has uniformly construed 

 it, a new revolt against Colombia's authority brought 

 about by her own refusal to permit the fulfilment of 

 the great design for which that treaty was made. It 

 was under these circumstances that the United 

 States, instead of using its forces to destroy those 



