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Excerpt from The Question Between the United States and Peru: New York, December 5th, 1860 It is starting from this premise that foreign governments show, in almost every instance, a decided tendency to protect by their forces the interests of their citizens when impaired by the acts of any party, be it a legal government or a baud of revolutionists, without stopping to maturely consider whether those acts were brought about by guiltiness on the part of their citizens, or by arbitrary behavior on the part of the supposed offender. They generally presume that, the country being in revolution, the internal law's not being respected, it is a natural consequence that the rights of neutrals should be violated, and, so disposed, they lend a favorable ear to the partial and interested statement of their complaining citizen, and enforce his claims with all their power. What is the result of this policy? That some foreigners, counting upon impunity, become the agents of the revolutionists, and, trusting in the protection of their governments, embark in wild speculations to afford them means to carry on their subversive plans. And so it is that those republics, although receiving from the foreign element the means of peace and prosperity, by the action of some conscientiousless speculators receive also the means of revolution and disorder. 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.