The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-08-25

siderable comment. The general opinion
seems to be that the proposed action of Ger
many will be In direct contraveniion of the
Monroe doctrine, and that it viii DO the duty
Of the United States to prevent the establish
mcnt of another European power on this
continent st all hazards. Although the
story told by the Freeman's Journal lacks
confirmation, 1t may be well enough to give
a condensed history of what Is known as the
Monroe doctrine, based on the authority of
President Woolsey. Bhe phrase Is fire.
| qucntly used but not, perhaps, universally
understood.
The Monroe doctrine may be briefly de-
fired, as the assertion OF republicanIsm as
the system OF government for the new
world, in opposition to the declsration Of the
the present century, that despotism should
be the future form of rule in the old world.
| The Holy Alliance, so famous in history,
was formed Aug. %, 1915, af or the downfall
of the great Napoleon, by the emperors o:
Russia and Austria, and the king of
Prussia. The king of France was afterward
admitted into The pious companionship.
! The Alliance may be described league
Of despotism against the rights and freedom
Of the world, although its purposes
were yelled under such ambigu-
GUS phrases as Exercising power
according to the principles of religion, JUS
tice, and humanity" "sffording one another
on all occasions aid and help" creating their
subjects and soldiers with parental feeling
and regarding their people as members OF a
great Christian family, whose guidance was
entrusted to them by God" At the con-
gress of AK -Chapelle, September 90, 1918,
the five great powers of Europe constituted
themselves into an Alliance, to carry out,
under equally ambiguous terms, their by
no means doubtful design of supervising
European affairs and interfering 10 prevent
all dangerous revolutions, especially such as
proceeded from popular movements. The
Alliance was soon called upon to per-
form it's dangerous duty. In the year
$50 revolutions broke out in Spain, Ma
plies, and Sardinia. A congress called
at Troppau in Silesia in October 1890, and Ia
ter in the year was removed to Laybach in
Syria. The five great powers and several of
the smaller ones were represented. The
DIlbiSn BOhoNnhchb dAOhO PAOtCoSOo oSo4iiSt /
interfering to put down revolutions, and !
Austria marched an army into Italy and |
suppressed the rebellions. The circular dis |
patch of Russia, Austria, and Prussia. de- |
clared s'that there existed vast conspiracy |
against all established power, and against all
the rights consecrated by that social order
under which Europe had enjoyed so many
centuries o'glory and happiness" The rulers
of these nations asserted and justified their
purpose of interfering to suppress this ia
naticism OF innovation wheneverit broke out.
The British government, on the other hand,
while acknowledging the right to interfere
where the immediate security or essential
interests of one state are endangered by the
in another, still maintain that
this right could not be indiscriminately ex-
tended TO all revolutionary governments.
was the exception and not the
rule and "could not without the utmost
danger be incorporated into the or
binary diplomacy of states, or into
the institutes of the law of nations"
The congress at Laybach broke up
after arranging for the holding of another at
Verona. This assembled in October, 1892,
and at once took up the consideration Of the
internal affairs of Spain. France was
deputed to do the will of the poten-
tates of Europe, on behalf of absolutism
and French army penetrated as far as
Cadiz and overthrow the constitution of
Cadiz, to which the king had been forced to
give his consent. The Duke of Wellington,
Oh, good grey head whom all men knew,
And to truA occasion fruG.D | .
refused in behslfof Great Britain to sane
ton the proceedings of the congress. u
From the proceedings at Verona the
Monroe doctrine arose Indirectly. In that ;
the great powers discussed ,
whether, in their high and mighty zeal for ,
the order and good government of the I
world, 1t did not devolve upon them to ,
bring back the Spanish colonies in America ,
TO subsection to the mother country. Great ,
Britain communicated this fact to the Uni A..
ted States in 1925, and President Monroe in
his annual message declared: "Thst we ,
should consider any attempt on the part of I
The allied powers to extend their system to
any portion of this hemisphere "a danger I
ous to our peace and safety" He further :
declared "that we could not view any inter- 9
position for the purpose of expressing gov I
ON this side of the Atlantic, :
whose Independence we had acknowledged, I
Or controlling in any manner their destiny I
by any European power, In any other light !
than a manifestation of an unfriendly I
disposition towards the United States" ,
A resolution embodying the presidents !
doctrine died still-born in congress, =
but, Great Britain sympsthizing heartily r
with the declarations of Monroe, the threat :
ened Intervention was given up. In the 9
same message the president, speaking of the !
boundary between the United States and ,