The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-04-08


dent we copy the following brief bat significant passage
respecting the Monroe doctrine
The wing adyersares OF the President whose bounden
duty il is pick holes ia his inaugural profess
apprehensve OF the effect which his tribute
the Monroe doctrine may produce in Europe while
same time they tell that IL is believed to DO wholly with
OUT i'm porance in America There really xrou nd
for their pations for this portion of Mr. Pieces ad-
Dress read with English eye, has been
gaIuitous and offensive assertion Of
prime pie For ourselves, however, adhere fret
that taking the peculiarites OF his position
account, we have Engishmen and Europeans, every
reason TO be contented with Mr. Pierce's message The
American President, whose first official harangue bad
eagerly cd by host of pal
sans, and whose election be their spokesman had
the fruit OF eompromise between them ALL could scarcely
have done less than address himself the ideas
domestic administration and foreign policy which hs
friends understood entertain President Pierce Just
satisfied the exigencies of his situation and
sit is not, however, the Monroe doctrine in itself, Ito
which President Pierce subscrbes but the public atna
ton OF thar doctEne by the government the United
(Which the President deprecates that serious
exception. We have right TO quarrel with American
for making of practical policy that the
United States should oppose every attempt Of the European
powers effect fresh conquesls plant fresh colonies
the American continents Such maxms, universally
quesced in home. though paraded abroad belong
the traditions OF every in the world The prop
osion that Holland should resist European settlements in
the arch pelago be heard twice week
ia the Dutch Chambers. We. ourselves, have actually
hazarded distant and disastrous without single
for il except The doctrine of the Foreign Office that
Russia not be allowed TO push her and her in
the OF the western Caucasus No has
ground for complaining against precepts imbodyng the
dtiona wisdom OF successive generations OF statesmen,
long reserved for application may
ar-e, and long they obruded the notice Of
equally powerful and equally independent
Bur, certainly would be dangerous novelty il any
such maxim were flung in the face of mankind prin
cipe OF public laws dogma which rgency would
justify the declarants in conuavening and which
blnation Of ouls ente The of the world
TO disregard"
The of the above declarations we take to be-
that those British statesmen for whom the Chronicle
speaks prepared and satisfied to our govern
ment act firmly upon the principle of the Monroe doc
ne, in any TO which ii is fairly applicable pro-
vided only that in intercourse with foreign powers
the doctrine itself presented-as the President has
presented ii in his Inauguraln pacific and concilIa
tory, rather than a harsh and nenacing tone GAS
canon of practical policy" the Chronicle admits that
the Monroe doctrine offers England no ground of OBJ
lection; and the auson 10 the claim of the British For
eign Office, that further Russian conquess in Asia may be
rghtfuy resisted by England the sword, certain
~ indicates and implies the conviction that the British
government cannot, without the crosses,
dispute The right OF the United States to exclude all fur
Their European aggression and interference in the ter
rtoal relations of the independent States OF this CONT
nent Admissions like these-nove they are in any
English journa--become the important and signf.
icant when i, is remembered that the Chronicle has long
been the repued organ Of Lord PAmes,on who, Of all
the creates, length both the theory and the practice of
British Intervention in the affairs of other governments
on this continent, elsewhere.
4 IL ~
tone Of British sentiment respecting the affairs of this
continent appears have been mainly occasioned by the
calm and manly afhrmancs OF the true American policy
on the subject which ngnaized the advent of Presi.
dent Pierce to power Doubtless the whole current of
events on this side OF the Atlantic growing out OF
our vast and rapid territorial expansion tended also
to the result; and since questions OF this char
ac,er must always be rather national than partisan,
we would not undervslue in this csnnexios the effect
produced by the in which the proposed Tnpar-
tits Cuban convention disposed Of. This combined
with the debates of the Senate at its last and present
esson give to the world strong intmaon that a,
this considerable party be rallied here agans,
the firm maintenance by our government of an American
policy for the American continent. To complete this i'm
preston, however, and TO make il efecual in Europe
| i, was needul that the administration, at its
outset should approve itself alike adequate to CON-
prehend the whole of our national position and
determined TO maintain the whole Of territorial
interests The eHectual in which this has
been done by the President is fully recognised by the
country lite part Of the admirable craftsmanship dis
PLAYED in the Presidents Inaugural declarations tba, they
are so admirably timed Had they been put forth either
At an earlier or later day. their effect would perhaps
have been less commanding and conclusive.
1t u.s. however, as an additional guarantee OF the con-
tinuance Of peaceful and friendly relations between
the United States and Great Britain that declarations
like those which we have cited from the Chronicle
in favor OF the Monroe doctrine present themselves
in their most important aspect, part OF the preva.
| lent public sentiment OF England. The principle laid
down by Mr.. Monroe. whether regard il as 80
doctrine OF public law" only settled canon OF
practical policy" has PROFESSIONALLY TO form
an essential element of the American policy Of peace
European powers manifesy appear indispensable
not only TO the due protection of interests upon
this continent, bat also to the avoidance OF a
grea, variety OF embarrassing questions leading directly
to controversies perilous while they last, and yet dcult
10 adjust 1t is not easy to for example, upon what
other general principle, basis, the question of Euro
pean interpos,on in Central America can be sasfacio
rly and permanently solved 1t is therefore, on all &C
counts be hoped that this principle Of public policy in
American affairs will be cordially recognised by