The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1866-01-17
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| sgmJfHE MONROE DOCTRINE l9.gia !
Governor Anderson seems to have 4
profound contempt for the Monroe doc
triue.a We quoie the following :aia'la 9'
But the question which really concerns
us nowis, not what its history or its clap.
trap name might imply it to be, but what
is 10 its own simple nature. And as it
seems to be now translated, it is a propo.
sitioh for our Government, entirely with.
out invitation, to elect itself into Q sort of
parent or guardian for the whole family
or batch of Spanish American republics
and people on the entire continent, and
to protect them, by arms, or menace Of
arms, against real or imaginary conspir-
acy by all the crowned heads of Europe.
Our first inquiry ought to be whether.
in the nature Of the thing, or by its word
or spirit, our Constitution has in it's Or
iginal terms, CT by any amend nent or i'm
plicatien Of ether, at all endowed our
National Government with any such
function Of guardianship over all the i'm.
beetles Of the continent or globe? II is
true, this is a domestic question, wholly
between ourselves the people and its
Government. 1t is not for Europe 10
make this point Of objection, But, as
one Of the people, and without present
argument, l demand the warrant for this
doctrine or measure '',- W.. ..',
AS individual philanthropists, it we're
as wise for to spend all OUT money
and'shcd our blood for the a ,stract right
ofnahy empty meal.bag to stand alone. :
1FOr the rest, If they were worth our go.
ing to war for they would not need ou,
help in war At their distance from Eu
rope, and amid their other circumstances
Of advantage, they could easily repel all
France aud Austria, much more The cor
poral'S guard which has Subjugated them
Only compare what they have done in
this, their war, with the deeds Of our own
rebels and traitors in ours-reaI men
though they were following in the exam.
pie Of Mexican conspiracy and civil wars
We may thereby discover the iuutility Of
taxing and drafting ou- people in their
wars. .1ai -rf .'eU Wv -'- ~. ID
We are'not the nation, at This time, By
our precept or example, to quell-the;l
Disturbances, and to supplant them By
order and industry We must first "ss
our own house in order," before we IN
dertake the affairs Of all our neighbors.
| In short, one year Of peaceful indus.
try by the Mexicans, (if they could only
go back into Aztecs y would be of more
money value, and of more national honor
too, to US than decadcs of war, with q
century of conquered possession Of those
mines and all their naked lands. And it
must not be forgotten, in this connection,
that one month Of war with France would
cost this nation, in loss of national credit
and the depreciation Of. it's currency
more than all Mexico is worth in fee sim.
pie. And with its people cumbering tho
ground-patriotism averts her eyes from
the horrid picture! .,aHg 1al ''l.
| 1t is very true that neither France rol
Austria has any business in Mexico. -
But the aUsweris very plain-"no more
have we.p Because our Government was
established for the good our owa people
Itewas neither given to US TO cpropagan
dize liberty among the Mexicans and
Hottentots, nor Christianity to the Sara
Gems at Jerusalem, nor the Chinese 1T Pc
kin aa, FfH -ar.4 t
Finally: tt2 9'
1t is as if some o'J Knight Of Mali,
should now arise to urge urnn us again
the march TO Jerusalem. Surely" he
would shout, THE bones OF orr Saviour
ought not to be kept in the dcsecratine
custody Of in6dels Press on the holy
crusade!' Mr. Monroe was doubtless 4
very good, sensible, old fashioned sort Of
a President, according to the measure Of
his abilities. ltmay be possible that ht
treally absurd enough (with his dec
trine Of State rights and strict construc
tiou) to have claimed this national power
to establish and usurp the Office of uni
versal wet nurse to all .hc orphan repub
Elicsi In the world. ans isiF sss-- 5s1
However that may he, there once wa.
a patriot and Statesman whom we can
|trust.m George Washington-the only re.
ally and grandly great man who ever GIL
Ted that seat-shas taught us a doctrine
worth.his teaching and our remembering
land observance, the Eleventh Command.
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