New-York daily tribune., 1866-01-08
or Congress is the better judge ofthe expedicocy
Of snnh q lar
HI.uJAH POGRAM.


That "Too many cooks spoil the BROTH" is
an adage nowhere more forcibly illustrated than
in the conduct Of international affairs. We
think the meeting at Cooper Institute on Sat,
urday evening afforded fresh confirmation ofits
truth.
We have a Government, to which our
Constitution intrusts the conduct Of our
relations with foreign powers. At tic head
of that Government is a President, whom we
all profess to confide in. Nobody seems to
doubt that, in the important and critical matter
of our relations with France and Mexico,
Andrew Johnson is fully and intelligently in
sympathy with the feelings and aspirations OF
the American People. Why not, then, leave
( The whole business in his hands, at least until
it shall appear that, by some act Of commission
or omission, he has placed himself in opposition
to the public will Must not public meetings,
To declare the sentiment Of our people with re-
gard to Mexico and the Monroe Doctrine, be held
in Europe to imply that our Government needs
guidance, or at least stimulation, from without
with regard to European encroachment or
menace affecting our power or our peace
Among the resolves Of the Cooper Institute
| Meeting we find the following:
He,oir,d. That by the promulcaton Of the Monroe
Doctrine" and its constant Endorsement We have as.
sumcd responsibility toward our sister republics and
an obligation to defend and protect them, which 1t
would DO dIshonorable 10 neglect or repudiato.
INo c,nnnt accent IN tbi. prono.itiop What.
ever responsibility we may have assumed by
Mr. Monroe's language is responsibility to
ourselves. His declaration was made in behalf
Of the safety, the dignity, the tranquility, of
our own country. Let it once be agreed and
understood that we are "to defend and protect
our sister republics Oh this continent in every
quarrel they may have with European powers,
and we shall neyermore be at peace; or rather,
we shall no longer be masters OF our own dcs-
TIMES, but be at all times liable to conscrptions
taxes, and debts, at the caprice Of other nations
and in defense of interests but remotely and in
ierentialy our own. The Washington doctrine
with regard to our foreign policy was immensely
superior TO ony such caricature of the Monroe
Doctrine as is set forth above.
American craftsmanship il not, in all things,
that development of the National character
whereof We have most reason TO be proud; but,
whatever it's defects, they arc oil exaggerated
and intensified in American oratory Of the
spread-eage pattern. Thus Mr.. T. T.. Tomlin.
son, at the Cooper Institute meeting, INDUCED
in the following "splurge:r
"And we bavc a right. for the purpve- OF humanity.
for the purposes Of Chrisanty and by reason OF the
traditions Of our oounrywe have right 10 say u the
allied powers Of Europe. We did not interfere with
you and " IL necessary for preservation that ne
aiiOU no roaarcAi,s ppoE The ooAfiHerf If fNorsca' ;
Cloud and continued applause).'
In the name OF our country. Of international
right and Of ooDluon sense, we protest against
this atrocious pretension. The people OF other
American countries are nowise accountable 10
us for The government they. choose TO establish,
the institutions under which they prefer TO 1--we.
Those Of Brazil have chosen 10 create hcrcdi.
ta.y empire; and under it have achieved pros.
perity, stability, and the respect of mankind.
Ii is entirely their own affair, with which we
have never presumed TO mcddle and had never
any right TO mcddlc. Mexico our next neigh
Dor, in the infancy OF her independence, chose
TO become ar empire, and we never objected to
her choice; nor had We any night to object; any
more than when she dethronod her emperor and
became republic. And now, we protest, not
that there is an emperor in Mexico, but that
he was imposed on her by foreign bayoncts.
and remains there under their protection.
Send them away. and, if she chooses foreman
an empire. under Maximilisn or any one else il
is entirely Ter own affair; and We can only in
tcTmeddc with it by putting ourselves hagrantly
in the wrong.
We close by reterating our earnest demand
that tho management of our foreign affairs be
left with those to whom the Constitution and the
popular choice have confded them. If they do
right, sustain them; if they do wrong, impeach
them: but let us not undertake to supersedc
them unlc's in the manner prescribed by the
Constitution.