National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-11

1928, wrote to his friend Monroe: "0ur
first and fundamental maxim should be
never TO entangle ourselves in the broils
of Europe; or, second, never TO suffer
Europe to meddle with cis-Atlantic af-
fairs" And in the same letter he says
concerning the Monroe policy, not then
announced: Its object is to introduce and
establish the American system of keep
ing out of our land all foreign powers, or
never permitting those of Europe to in
termeddle with the affairs of our Nation" /"
This was like instruction to Monroe, not
approval, and may well be treasured up
in the minds of Congressman who profess
SO much regard for the opinions of Mr..
Jefferson.
To those who looked for counsel rather
to the Massachusetts than the Virginia
school, we commend the following addi-
tional quotation from bIr. Webster on the
Monroe Doctrine:
Sir, look on the message of December, 1928 as
forming bright page i'll history. will help
neither to to tear it OUT shall it be
DA dCl VI 1Ulle OF tlu1u
to the sagacity of the Government, and will not
diminish that honor
In 1915 President Polk in terms reiter-
ated and reaffirmed "the principle ayowed
by Mr. Monroe"
Lewis Cass said in 1856 that the doc
trine was addressed to all nations and
was intended to operate during all time.
1t was the annunciation of new line of
policy. On what was it founded? On the
situation of our country and of the various
States Of this continent, which demanded
a system, as Mr.. Jefferson said, separate
and apart from that of Europe"
Said James Buchanan, in his History
of the Origin and Nature of the Monroe
Doctrine"
1t soon became canon of faith for the Ameri-
can people, and they placed it side by side with
their hostility to the imprisonment of American
seamen and to the search of American vessels on
the high seas.
President Pierce announced his ad-
herence to the Monroe Doctrine.
In respect to the Maximilian Empire,
Secretary Seward said to the several
Legislatures of the United States:
In the Presidents judgment the emancipation of
the American continent from the control of Europe
has been the principal feature of the last half
tury.
We are aware of no American states
man who has failed to do honor to this
great principle, or who has pretended to
deny its binding force as an accepted
American doctrine, except Mr.. Clayton,
who was at the time defending himself
from the charge of having violated it.
Let us see the Democrat who will,
in the interest of brood Of French
adventures, 60 counter to the teachings
of Jefferson, Monroe, Cass, Buchanan,
and Pierce; let us see the old Whig or Re-
publican who will disregard the earnest
words of Adams, Webster, Sumner, and
Seward.
A favorable report of the Crapo resolu-
ton, or any other similar one, and its
speedy adoption, will coagulate the blood
in the veins of the French canal scheme,
and inform the world that under Ameri-
can protection only can new modes of
Isthmus transit be provided for the
worlds commerce, and with the worlds
capital. Equal rights for the commerce
Of all nations in the transit of either
Isthmus by whatever means adopted,
but the United States to guarantee those
rights. Congress cannot desire to avoid
so plain duty, and could not if it would.