The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-12-22
GROWTH OF MONROE DOCTRINE.


may safely be aserfbed 10 John Quincy
Adams. II was, however. the outcome OF
years OF national development and the ex-
preston OF a deeply rooted public senti-
ment. Adams career as secretary of state
was one Of active aggressiveness against
European powers. and his infiexible win
overmastered. the. more cautious president
and the other members Of his cabinet.
Soon after his return from England.
where he had been minister, he entered
into negotiations with Spain for the set
tlement OF the boundaries Of Louisiana
After prolonged correspondence, Spain re-
fused 70 ratify treaty. and Adams pro-
posed TO take formal possession Of Flor
ida and Galveston, covering ali the dis
puted territory, and much more. France
and England yentnred the hope that the
United States would not resort TO vfo-
lent measures About the same time, APP
prehension was felt that the Holy Alliance
Russia. Prussia. Austria and France) in
tended to aid Spain In recovering her lost
possessions in South America
Adams looked far ahead into the time
when the United States should comprise
OF louisiana IN 1916. he advocated asking
Great Britain TO cede Canada: he labored
hard to secure possession Of the Florldas
and an opening TO the Pacific, or South
sea, as 1t was then called south of the Co
hmbia river; he was prepared TO dispute
Russlas right on American soil. and in
1SZ3 he wrote to the American minister at
Madrid that: 'It is scarcely possible to
resist the conviction that the annexation
OF Cuba TO our Federal republic will be in
dispensable 70 the continuance and integ-
rity OF the Union"
European powers were active; there
seemed danger at one time that Spain and
Portugal would be restored to authority IN
South America; that Russia would be con-
cliated with California and more; that
France would secure possession OF Mexico,
and England be offered Cuba. England
was not member Of the holy alliance.
but Lord Castlereagh, the foreign secre-
tary. who attended the alliances con-
gresses in 1S2O. 1921 and 1872, was, Ii was
charged at the time, somewhat friendly 10
the objects of the coalition. When, on
Castlereagh's death by suicide In the sum-
mer of 1872, George Canning went to the
foreign office, England's attitude toward
the alliance changed. Supposlng that the
coalition meditated restoring SPANS au-
thofity over the nations OF the American
continent which had shortly before this
time secured their independence of her.
Canning, in August. 1S23, proposed 10 Rich
ard Rush, the United States minister at
London, that this country should cooper
ate with England in defeating this pur-
pose. Rush. Ola August ., communicated
CanHIngs suspicious and proposition to
the Monroe administration, and the decIs-
ration IN the message TO congress twelve
weeks later warning the alliance to keep
It's hands of the Laun.Amerlcan nations
was the result.
The first official intmatior Of Tho Monroe
doctrine Vas probably made by Adams.
Who relates an Interview he had with Baron
de- Tuyl, the Russian minister al Washing
ton city, on the Northwest coast question,
in which occur these words: Il told him
specially that we should contest the right
Of 9Rassa 20 any territorial establishment
on this continent, and that wa should as
sumo distinctly the principle that the Amer
lcan continents are no longer subjects OF
any new European colonial establishments"
Charles Francis Adams saws this is the
first hint OF tho policy so well known after