This Government consented to restrictions in regard to a region of country wherein we had specific and peculiar interests only upon the conviction that the like restrictions were in the same sense obligatory on Great Britain.
Pierce discusses the understanding that the United States agreed to certain restrictions in Central America, contingent upon similar obligations from Great Britain.
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