, 1866-01-06
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
Tho Ohio Governor Opposed TO 1t.

Tho Ohio papers nfe actively discussing the
son. It isa remarkable document, expressed
in remarkable. phrascology. and tserbosity!!
The Cleveland Ltader thinks the following
c1prcssIona arc quits undISn1t1ed In q StntG
paper:
committing; each n,,ls. ha! nesessesy, ruios Of
prison discipline .. not throwing crumbs apeas,nc
all, II we hare only the seuse to improve : clap
trap =; batch Of South American republics 'ah-
:sss aet ol in empty sa oe e s,a0a d p1pu
Pass ssS H. IN = 81
pfieoners fse, bat he eoaa % Sot c7ear he e IS aud
might Al nlzt thoneh' b. ensssed': .menaced and
wct-nnsre OF al he orphan repuhnec.'"
Eut the fratufe of the message that att
tracts the ,most attention Is tho chapter on
the Monroe doetrinc, which the Governor pro-
nonnced humhng, and the French usuEpation,
which he thinks is not very bad nfter all. He!
Gays: at Is very true that neither; Frnnce!
nor Austrin has any business In Mckee. But
the answer is very plain-tno more have weH'
Mr.. Monroe WIS, doubtless, very good,
scnsfble, honest, old.fashiontd sort Of o
President, according to the measure Of his!
abI1ities." :, ~:
Forgctfdl of Jefferson, Madison, the;
Adamses nnd Juckson-and NIL unmfndfhl OF.
our great statesman and 1aHented martyr!
Abraham Linco1n-ths Governor describes
Washington aa ssthe only really and truly
great mani who ever allied the Presidential;
chair. ri ... Il
We make 3 few brief extracts from thia por-!
tlon Of his message: ),
=, What the t'Monroe Doctrine'' exactly ls,,
we have never agreed among ourselves. It's.
tain. It's means nre, to ths day, unspecldea-
One thing Is very certain, however. Il Is, IN;
the months Of It's present advocates, rery DIFF;
.crent In all these regards, from that intended
By Great Britaln, when, for purposes Of her;
own, she suggested 1t, or By Mr. Monroe aud,
his Cabinet, when they borrowed II from Mr );
| Canning. Another is also most ic1ear. 1t is
wholly Incompatible with that other, the fi1n-i
! damen1al doctrine, which the Father Of hisl
| CountrT-the very Moses In our early wilder
| ness-bequeatlcd to Us, aa Inst Legacy, and
! as perpetual rnle Of our national action !,
VIZ: 10 "bcware of all cntauglng alliances u
And the facts are. that Mexico has never
been, and can: never be, ~ Republic unless
her people: will acconnodate US by being
| born aEain-nnd Of entirely different parent
age. She, with her sister "Republies,' OF
South America, hAse beer, from the beginning,
unlnterrupt.edly, most violent, bloody, IL;
csnaiary,, dl<gEaeefnl anarchy: y fozty odd
years Of Independence aud Liberty she has
Undergone, 1t Is calculated, more than two
hundred public revolutions-aN Of them Of
force, and most Of them bloody. She has
continually Injazed, all tho nations with
| which she held communications; has ruth
lessly ruined and oppressed her own people
L u~a CFfSVR 1t
be called. which governs nothing and
nobody--and has brought disgrace, Mike
upon the sacred namo Of Republican Liberty
md Of human nature. Say what we wll-do
what we may, In this affair certain amount
Of intelligence and virtue Is Indispensable to
q simple SANDER upon that great cause to
pretend that the Mexicans, Of any such peo.
pie, are fit for our iorm OF government. 1t
l., tesides, a win thing for us to attempt to
AtlY them Up in this, their free right Of mutu-
, yidnal philanthropista, 1t were as wise 1or
! us to spend our money and shed onl
blood Tor the abstract right Of an empty
meal bag to stand alone. For the rest i
thcy were worth our going to war Tor, they
would not need our helpin Wat. At their dis
tance from, Europe, and amidst their othe,
: circumstances Of advantage, they could easily
repel all France and Ausfris, much more the
cofpoFal's guard which has subjugated them,
Only compare That they have done In this,
their war, with the deeds OF our cwn rebels
and traitors In oura-rea1 men, though they
weza following h the example Of Mexican
conspiracy and civil wars We may; thereby
discover The tnutility Of taxiug and drafting
our people tn their wars. = =.
Ard Ii must not be forgotten in this con.
nectiou, that ono month Of var with France
tfoua1 credit, and the depreciation of'its cur
rcncy, more than all Mexico Is worth, IN tee
simple, And. With Its people cumbcring the
grnund-PatnotIsm averts her eye from the
Gorrfd picture. Only imagine our Congress.
I men, Senators and Presidents Of the grade OF
Southern Brethren" by the aid OF their al.
lies, our raw freedmen, ruling us and our pos
\ terity! For IL Is o the nature Of our instltu,
tIons md habits, TINT It's worst classes must
rule us, greatly beyond the proportion Of theft
numbers. The heart sinks, and almost set
tics in the sadness Of despair In the apprenen
4 sion Of such dismal hate lot our ''renovsted'
l. ration r.: : - ::
We are asked to 70 to war with France, o,
!: to menace aud bully her II behalf Of Mexico
j. In other words, ne must plunge into war VIII
4 one Of the foremost nations and peoples .
!; interest OF one OF the lowest aud last. vi
are 10 be involved in bitter, and, It may be
incnznhlc controversies and eynbroiln1cnt
: with nation and people to whose trcasur
/ and blood we so very largely owe our m
tional existence, for the sake Of aDothel
:; which we hare fraudulcntly and remorse
:: lessly plundered and slain, and which, Of al
: others, nc most bitterly desplse anil hate
i md TO which also VIC almost cHclusivcl,
j.! owed our late danger Of national destruction
J and ruin. For, without that ''fatal golde,
! apple Of discord," tho Mexican POSSESSION 0
! Texas and her other "terrltorics:,n we shnul'
:; | not hnye had our war Of rebellion. Their
once Was patriot statesman whom We "a,
! trust, George Washington-fhe only reall
) and truly grandly great man who eyer ,dllsl
: that seat, has taught na doctrine, worth HI
. teaching aud our remembering and observ
aace-tko Eleventh Commandment; " Min
your oWn business" :, j.;