Excerpt from New Granada and the United States of America: Final Diplomatic Controversy Relating to the Occurrences That Took Place at Panama on the 15th of April, 1856 To erect the cities of Panama and Aspinwall (colon) into two municipalities independent and neutral to govern themselves, with a territory ten miles wide on each side of the Railroad - The perfect freedom of the transit route. Neutrality and freedom guaranteed, sovereignty unchanged. 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.