The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-02-17

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soners was passed with certain amendments Az.
ter which, the House, IN Committee Of the Whole
on the state Of the Union, made rapid Roadway
with the Indian appropriation bill.
EUROPEAN INTERVENTION ON THIS
CONTINENT.
alt is well known to the American people and 10
all nations, that this government has never inter-
Tered with the relations subssting between other
governments. We have nerfr made otirSslpe, par
Ties TO their wars their alliances; we have not
sought Their territories by conquest; We have not
mingled with parties in their domestic struggles;
and believing our own form Of government 10 be the
best, we have never attempted to propagate IL by
| intrigues, by diplomacy, or by force. We may
claim on this continent like exemption from Eu-
ropean interference. The nations of America are
equally sovereign and independent with those OF
Europe. They possess the same rights independ-
ent OF all foreign nerposon, TO make war TO con-
Guide peace, and TO regulate their internal affairs
The people OF the u. States cannot therefore view
with Indifference attempts of European powers TO
interfere with the nderendent action of the nations
on thls continent. We must ever maintain the
principle, that the people ofhis continent alone have
the right TO decide their own destiny. Should any
portion OF them, constituting an independent state
propose TO unite themselves with our confederacy
| this will be question for them and US to deter
mine, without any foreign interpOsiton. We can
to prevent such union, because it might disturb
| the balance Of power which they MAY desire TO
maintain upon this continent. Near quarter of a
century ago, the principle was distinctly announced
| to the world in the annual message Of one Of my
predecessors, that the American continents by the
free and Independent condition which they have as.
sumed and maintain henceforth not to be con-
sidered subjects for future colonization by any
Euporean power This principle toiH apply pih
greatly nersand force should any European Po,oer at
Tempt 10 establish any colony IN North -7msriea
| In the existing circumstances of the world, the
present 10 deemed proper occasion to reeTate and
reafirm the principle ayowed by Mr. Monroe, and
TO state my cordial concurrence in its wisdom and
sound policy The reassertion Of this principle,
pecialy in reference to North America, is at this
day but the PRONUNCIATION Of policy which no Eu.
ropean power should cherish the disposition to 70
sist. "-Prsadsnts message efDeeembtr.
When Mr.. Monroe, in 1923, made his two memo
rable declarations, that the unoccupied lands Of
North and South America were to be considered az
no longer open to European colonization, and that
any attempt by European powers to interfere in the
policy, control the destiny, Of the South Amer
lean States, would be regarded by government
an unfriendly demonstration towards the United
es,--when these declarations made in 1923
the political state both of the Old World and of the
New, was precisely such to make the issuing by
our government of such manifesto almost the r,r,
bOldea act Of salssnanship which had been done by
the United States since the declaration Of indepen.
dence.
Continental Europe then just leagusd in
"Holy Alliance" against free institutions and had
acted the platform of that league in Italy and in
Spain. Spain was seeking, and was on the point Of
obtaining, the aid of the "Alance" against her re-
VOTED South American colonies. These colonies
,hen and for several years afterwards, in fagrnn,
war with the mother country, had been recognised
as independent States by our government alone. In
every form of diplomatic appeal we were pressing
England to concur in that recognition, and pressing
in vain. At that moment, and under such circnm.
stances, pending The Of Spain in South america
we sent the "moral force' Of our government six
thousand miles southwark, to Cape Horn, and de-
clining for ourselves, any active interference in the
South American war, we proclaimed to the worlt
that the Intervention of any foreign power iE tina
war, upon any pretext, would be deemed by US al
act of hostility against the United States That ii
addition to his on.colonization doctrine which
cred both continents, the sgnally bold and com
manding attitude assumed by James Monroe.
Il
mend ITSELF in that day to the heart and mind of thu
country On this point, we are willing to take thu
testimony of Mr.. Webster--good testimony surely
to those who may think that Congress ought &c
shrink from sustaining Mr.. Polk in his modified
and limited statement Of Mr.. Monroe's doctrine
In his speech on the Panama mission, delivered
early in 1897, Mr.. Webster discourses as follows;
"I concur entirely in the sentiment expressed
in the resolution of the gentleman from Pennsylva
j nia Mr. Markley, that the declaration of Mr. Mon
roe was wise, scasonable, and patriotic. 1t hal
been said in the Of this debate, to have beer
loose and vague declaration. aoas, Ibeiiepe, SUI
fcientiy studied Ihape understood from good author
ity that il considered ,csghed and distinctly
decidedly approved, BY every Of the Presidents adpi
sers, al that time. = agree that the messag
| did mean something-that it meant much; and
maintain that the declaration answered the end de
signed by it, did great honor to the foresight ant
spirit of the government, and that il cannot now b.
taken back retracted annulled, without disgrace
Ii met sir, trih the entire concurrence and hearty ap
probation Of this country The tone tohich IL uere'
found corresponding response IN the hearts Of the fire.
people Of the United States. That people saw, ant
they rejoiced to see, that, on a fit occasion, on
| weight had been thrown into the right SCALE ant
that without departing from our duty, we had dom
something useful and something effectual in TIL
cause of civil liberty"
There is more than this, most eloquently said, oil
the same point. But this is enough for our pur
pose. 1t may be observed, however, that high il
that cabinet of Mr.. Monroe, by which his declare
tons we're thus carefully weighed and thus fulll
sanctioned, stood the distinguished southern states
man whose recent return to the Senate, hailed b,
all the land as a vast accession to the intelectua
power Of that body, has been hailed with peculia
Joy by those who look with dread upon the presen
state Of our relations with Great Britain. Nor
this all. The Panama mission itself, proposed L
Congress by Mr.. Adams in December, 1896, an
by Congress carried into effect at that session, wa
legislative ratification by the wing party Of that day
Mr. Monroe's whole doctrine, deliberately given, il
the face of most serious, and, as we humbly con
ceive conclusive objections, both constitutional AM
political. These objections against the Panama mi'
.;op a N, od, of ea,71iup out Mr. Nonroe's poiieu Il