The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-10
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1896.
Is Mr.. Stewards Policy at Variance with
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ing the Constitution to discover the illegality
of all the actions Of the Administration, with
reading up musty documents and quoting
from forgotten State papers, to prove that the
Monroe doctrine actually existed, and that it
was and is political principle in our national
affairs. They make extracts from JEFFER-
SON, MADISON, and CALHOUN, to prove that
they favored the supremacy of republican
institutions on this continent. They ex-
hume forgotten letters, and level the
battery of precedent against the couroe
Secretary SEWARD in regard to the
continuance of monarchy in Mexico. The
World and Express make eloquent ex-
tracts from the fathers of our system, to show
their advocacy of united and free continent.
We find that Mr.. JEFFERSON, in 1903, says:-
ave consider their interests and ours as
the same, and that the object Of both must be
to ercIoIde all European influence from this
hemisphere. We aDiSh to GUoid the necessity
of going to acdr, till Our revenue shall be en-
tirely liberated from debt. Then it tCiH S1y-
flee for aOar, without creating ne,O debts or
toGes."
And in 1S23:-"Our first and fundamental
marin should be, neUer to entGngle ourSeIUeS
in the 6rOiLs Of Europe. Our second, neUer
to suffer Europe TO intermeddIe aoih CTS
Atlantic affairs. america North and South,
has a set Of interests distinct from those Of
Europe, and peculiarly her olon. She should
therefore haze a system Of her oaoR, separate
and apart from that Of Europe"
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which fill two columns and half of the
World, and are being republished bodily in
all the Democratic organs from Maine to
Minnesota. There is nothing more improving
to the style or more ennobling to the political
tone of a paper than to refer to the utterances
ofstatesmen, now passed from our midst, who
are universally esteemed as patriotic, and
without doubt the friends of the Monroe
doctrine, conclusively proving that MONROE,
JEFFERSON, and CALHOUN, all held the same
opinions as themselves in regard to the tolera-
tion of monarchy in America. We freely
grant that this fully establishes this interesting
coincidence in sentiment, but what is their
object in laying down this proposition? We
all know before they commenced that the Mon
roe doctrine was supported by the fathers of
the Constitution, as we know equally we'll
that it is similarly received by all the people
OF America to day, always excepting an ex-
Governor of Ohio. The object the Democracy
have in view is evidently exhibited in the
declaration that " the columns of the Times
faithfully reflect the insidious policy Of Mr..
SEWARD. Its purpose is to circumvent the
popular determination, which it dares not
meet, by pretending that the Empire will
crumble to pieces of itself, and thus staving
off action till the lapse oftime shall have given
the new Government prescriptive right to
continuance. 1t is by this sort of mastery
inactivity that Mr.. SEWARD intended 10 give
and, had President LINCOLN lived, would
have given stability to the French-Austrian
throne"
The aim, therefore, of this exhuming of the
Madison papers, and quotations from JET
PERSONS life, is to prove that Mr.. SEWARD
is violating the fundamental principle of our
Government in not going to war with France
in order to drive MAMMALIAN out of Mexico
The design is to create belief that the policy
of the Secretary is one to which all our
traditions and prejudices are opposed one
which would be injurious to the nation, and
render most unpopular the Administration of
which he is a member. The question per-
tinently suggests itself, "Is Mr.. SEwARD's
course of conduct at variance with the Mon
roe doctrine?" The Democracy say it is |:
we maintain, on the contrary, it is only an
enunciation of that grand principle, but so
toned down by discretion as to conserve the
national good, yet maintain the maxim which
has been officially affirmed since the opening
of the century. The very extract from JET
FERsoN which the World quotes, is a
direct compliment to Mr.. SEWARD's
diplomacy. he says in 1903, distinctly, that
eve want to avoid the necessity of going to
war until our revenue is entirely liberated
from debt !" and the necessity was avoided by
Just such line of diplomacy as the Secretary
of State is adopting to-day. We had
no war in 1903, or for years afterwards
the doctrine of America for Americans
was only theory until the commencement
of Mr.. MoNRoE's Administration, ten years
after the date of Mr.. JEFFERsoN's quoted
letter. The United States, therefore, from
motives Of policy, Iefrained from enunciatinl
the doctrine for whole decade, because the!
had debt, a tax on their resources. Ant
yet the World quotes JEFFERSON to shov
that Mr.. SEWARD is derelict in his duty, falls
to his country, and recreant TO our doctrines
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