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In the House of Representatives, on
Monday, Mr.. Foote offered the following
resolution

"oHaay, MT. ro0te offered the tOllowl
resolution:
Reso'red, That the Government and people
the Confederate States have as deep AN interest
the nttn and intiexibe main tenance Of what's know
o. the Monroe Doctrine as the Government ana r.
P~ % the United States can possibly haVei IN
their night 20 assert and maintain that doctrine,
they choose 10 do 50, is unquestonaoie oui va
whhs,, IN cor Sderation Of the early ss,
t1elr independence on the part Oh tlc 49,. "a,
OF the United States and ample Justice being oo'
IN other respects they would douotiess ,s g
a. Their true policy to UNIT y, IT.. n recoenition
the United states shall be much longer dcIiyeu,
MIGHT become the true pohcy o. SAID "oVeii. mn.
anl people Of the Confederate states 10 consent
the Welding up Of the great principle embodled
the Monroe Doctrine, in consideration OF other es
sentlal advantages connected with tntii own "ei.t
ana safety being cTeetualiy guaranteed 10 them"
From the opinion expressed in the frs
clause of this resolution, we utterly dis
sent. The people of the Confederat
States, and by consequence the Govern
ment thereof, so far from having any in
terest in maintaining the principles o
the Monroe Doctrine, have an interest, il
our judgment, directly the reverse. |
is better for them that any nation of Eu
rope-England, France, Austria, ever
Russia-should hold possession of any
portion of this continent than that il
should be held by the Yankees And il
not by some powerful European nation,
by the Yankees, to the south of us,
every foot of territory acilt be held be-
fore the expiration of the present CEN
fury.
The circumstances under which Mr.
Monroe, in December, 1928, issued his ia
nous declaration were entirely different
from the state of things existing now.
The Spanish colonies of Mexico and South
America had, ten years before, thrown
of the yoke of the mother country, and
had been, during the interval, fighting
for their independence so successfully
that, as Mr.. Monroe, in the very declara-
ton in question, maintained, there no
longer existed even a remote possibility
to that mother country Of reducing them
to obedience. In the meantime, during
the year 1921 revolution took place in
Spain itself against the odioas govern.
ment of Ferdinand VII. That monarch
was overpowered and placed under re
straint. The Cortez established con-
sntution, limiting his power and greatly
enlarging the privileges of the people
The Holy Alliance held a CONGRESS- at
Gay oack in 1927, in which they resolved
that they had right to interfere in the
domestic concerns of other nations. and
SO 10 reform them, when they offered |
bad example to their neighbors, as 10
suppress the example in question. The
bad example was free government :; and
by reforming, they meant tho entire sup
preston of freedom and the institution
or restoration of despotism. At another
congress, held at Verona in 1922. thew
resolved to apply this principle to Spain
and to reform her back into the
arms OF Ferdinand. England dissented
from this proposition; France, Austria.
Russia and Prussia voting in favor of it.
To France was entrusted the delicate
and Louis XVIII. sent his ne
phew, the Duke of Angouleme, the next
spring, at the head of 100000 men. to
accomplish the object. 1t was accom-
pllshed with little difficulty and Ferdi-
land had no sooner been restored than
ne appealed to the Allies in assisting
linn to subdue his rebellious South Anne
1can and Mexican subjects, who had
proved too strong for his own power. "A
meeting was to have taken place in Paris |
Turing the ensuing winter for the pur- {
'ose of arranging prelirninaries, when a
aiming, at that time foreign secretary.
lew up the whole scheme by telling
he FRENCH minister that, if the Allies
proceeded, England would instantly re-
ognlze the independence of the Spanish
olomes. When our Congress met, Mr..
ionroe, IN his annual message, called
he attention of that body to the sub. |
ect, and declared that while we never
lad interfered, and never would inter 9
ere, with the established colonies of En-
opean powers on this continent, the at
empt of those powers to introduce their
peculiar maxims of government, and to-
impose them upon the South American
tates, could not be viewed by us as a {