Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-01-27
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The Monroe DOCTRINE.

AC -AOhAOC GOttAAnCs
General Cass has been very much excited for some
time past about foreign relations aud has made
a speech urging the Senate to roaffrm the Monroe
doctrine.
The immediate cause of the grave Generals ex-
ci,ement on this subject was, motion 10y H. Soule,
To lay before the Senate the correspondence Of our
Government, with France aud Great Britain, in re-
la,ion to Cuba II was discovered by this cores
pondence, that these two European powers had pro-
posed to enter into an alliance with the United
States, protect the Island of Cuba ainst invasion
and suhagation by any foreign state which proposal
the United States rejected. Anybody but General
Cass might have seen that this was delicate mcdc
Of asking car government TO pledge itself 10 eds
countenance" 6busteIing and to respect the laws Of
nationsi but General Cass saw nothing in il but
des're on the part Of Great Britain and France to
gratuitously interfere with the diplomacy Of this
continent, and ultimately to a-grandize themselves
by making territorial conqoes,s in the Gull Of Mex.
leo. Geleral Cass, therefore, urged the Govern.
ment Of the United States to reatirm the Monroe
doctrine" which doctrine, as he understands it. is
thai no European nation shall be permitted to colo
nize hereafter any part Of the American continent"
We need uot discuss the question whether this
doctrine is grautous aud dictaiorial rather lhaa
just one, seeing that Great Britain, France, and
Spain did originally colonize this continent, aud still
possesses dependencies it, holding those depend
encces by title similar to the one by which we as
nation hold the United States. This doctrine, as
interpreted by Mr. Cas-. is Simply the law of the
stronger, modified and adapted to the circumstances
OF a particular case.
What law, in ethics, is there 10 prevent US getting
behind this Monroe doctrine'' Of General Cass,
when we have once sanctioned lis principles 1t
would be just, to drive Great Britain France,and
Spain, from their present possessions, as TO exclude
them from all prospective or reversonarv rights. in
relation TO the future Of this continent We have
no power in Justice, dictate to the present govern
ment of Cuba, Jamaican Canada, how those colo
MES shall in future be governed. Our only powerto
do so, resides 10 our artillery.
But we deny that Mr.. Monroe ever proposed such
doctrine that advanced BY Gen. Cass in his
name. Mr.. Monroe is no more responsible for the
doctrine of6libusterism, than George Washington
is responsible for its cowardly mean aulithess the
Wing non intervention docuine. with which our
hunkers met Kossu,h
John c. Calhoun,who was a member Of Mr.. Mon.
roe's government, defined the ..Monroe doctrine''
somewhat differently from Mr. Cass. The facts, as
stated by him, in his speeches in Congress, and
which are succinctly stated in the New York Jour.
nal Of Commerce, are these. Alter the pacfcation
OF Europe 10 1915, the "Holy Alliance OF despots
contemplated the re establishment Of monarchy in
Spanish America. George Canning, the British
Foreign Secretary, informed our government that
Britain wished opportunity to hold herself alool
from tn alliance and proposed that the United
States should make declaration, that they would
not permit The Spanish American Republics to be
reduced to colonial bondage by any European re,ver
Great Britain would then be enabled to say, that
she would not unite ina pledge that might involve
her in war with the United States Accordingly,
in 1922, declaration was made, to the effect that
the United States would regard any attempt to rev
Intionze Spanish America, as hazardous TO their
wn safety. The ''Monroe doctrine' had, there.
fore, definite object. That object every American
patriot could fully, firmly, and heartily sympalhise
with. That object every American n9,o would
heartily sustain.
We believe that the whole boundIess continent
will, in time, Lv-s---s. American and Republican, but
not through the docrine Of Monroe'' as interpret.
ed by Cas-. When we sweep away the leprosy and
curse Of slavery, from the brightness and beauty Of
our democratic Institutions example, Alone will
be sufficient to induce Cuba, Canada, and all the
colonies and islands OF America, to become as we
are, and 10 ask admission into our family of States
we were only true to protested principles, and
Just to ourselves monarchy would fly away before
the bright presence Of our freedom. Being false to
liberty, aud unjust to ourselves, our statesmen can
only exhibit the weakness Of our national virtue and
the bitterness Of parzan Spleen by such speeches as
that OF General Cass