out of the project (to wit, that relative to the road from Barima to Cuyuní) would produce, without doubt, a collision with the Venezuelan authorities in that region, and would be the cause of additional acritude in a controversy which it is important to both parties to carry on in a conciliatory manner. As your excellency will understand, the conflict assumes already a threatening aspect, as the authorities of the colonies are disposed to extend still more their jurisdiction, under the pretext of uniting two points of the territory of Guayana, and thus to penetrate into regions where the Republic has already established regular stations. In view of this, the Venezuelan Government, ever solicitous to exhaust all proper means of arriving at a friendly settlement, has resolved to inform your legation of the new danger which has arisen and to urge hereby the Government of the United States to exercise its efficient and direct intervention, a request which some time ago our minister plenipotentiary at Washington presented to the Department of State, and has since frequently reiterated. The cooperation of your excellency would, without doubt, be productive of direct results, as it would rest on sound principles and emanate from one who, like your excellency, represents a Republic which rests its public acts upon grounds of justice and right. And, as moreover, the Government of the United States can not, without abandoning its dearest traditions, contemplate with indifference the disregard by a foreign power of the legitimate territorial rights of an American nation, it is to be hoped that its moral action be now as full and decisive in the matter as the magnitude and character of the threatened interests indicate, call for, and require. The matter which I have explained to your excellency is almost as important to the United States as to Venezuela herself. The control by England of the entrance to the mouth of our great fluvial artery, and of some of its tributaries, would expose to constant peril the indus try and commerce of a large portion of the New World, would, in fact, bring into ridicule the famous and salutary Monroe doctrine, and would establish abusive practices which in the end might make illusive for some American countries their own political entity as free and independent States. 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