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Title: Panama : a personal record of forty-six years, 1861-1907
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Robinson, Tracy, 1833-1915
Subjects: Panama Railroad Co
Publisher: New York Panama : Star and Herald Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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wn, with perhaps, as many be-lieve, the power of return given us, there maycome a time when even we shall behold thesplendor of this vision fulfilled. 267 ^Panama CHAPTER XXIV POSTSCRIPT (November, 1907) nnHE preceding record does not pretend tocover the period, subsequent to November3,1903, the date of the Independence of Panama.All that has followed forms intensely interestinghistory, and will doubtless find a competent his-torian. The events that led up to that crisis may, how-ever, be briefly sketched as follows: In July, 1900, the two political parties of Co-lombia, called Conservatives and Liberals, rep-resenting respectively the Bogota Governmentand the element of discontent in the republic,were engaged in a bloody civil war. Panamabeing a part of Colombia at the time, battleswere fought at that city and along the line ofrailroad to Colon. The Government of the United States wascalled on, under the treaty of 1846, to interpose.At last peace was secured through this friendly 268
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INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT AMADOR, CATHEDRALPLAZA, FEBRUARY 20. 1904. Chapter XXIV) intervention, the so-called Conservatives beingsuccessful in putting down the Liberals. GeneralCarlos Alban, who had become Governor of Pan-ama, had been killed on board the steamshipLautaro, during a fight in Panama Bay, Jan-uary 29, 1902, and General Victor Salazar hadsucceeded him as governor, on March 4th. Thelatter was soon replaced by Don Fecundo MutisDuran, who in turn retired on the appointmentof the patriotic senator, Don Jose Domingo deObaldia, in October, 1903. He was the last tohold the office of Governor of Panama under theRepublic of Colombia. After peace had beenpatched up, negotiations were commenced andcarried forward between Washington and Bo-gota, until a canal treaty had been concluded bythe representatives of the two nations. Thiscovenant, known as the Hay-Herran treaty, wasratified without amendment by the United StatesSenate, March 17, 1903. It then lacked only theapproval of Colo

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