Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-01-08
Not involved in the Monroe Doctrine.


From an article in the Richmond
Times under the caption above, VIC
make the following extract which es
tablishes very clearly the correctness
of the view the Spectator entertains
on the subject of the Monroe Doc.
trine" so-called:-
las we remarked on Wednesday John
z. Adams has always been understood
to have written the part of Mr.. Monroe's
message of 1928 which put forward the
Monroe doctrine. He was Monroe's
Secretary of State, and an announce.
ment OF that sort pertained to his office,
go that we are bound to assume he
knew the idea intended to be conveyed
by the language used, if he did not
write the message. Now, in our article
OF Wednesday, we showed that John
Quincy Adams. when he had become
President, sent message to Congress,
IN 1898. defining what was meant by
President Monroe, and he said it was
intended to announce that, while all
the American republics would unite in
holding that America was not to be.
considered open to European COLOMBIA
ton, yet each republic must enforce
the idea for itself, and that no one was
to be under any sort of obligation to
aid another in putting the idea into
force. That was the meaning of the
doctrine as interpreted by it's reputed
author-certainly man perfectly in
formed as to its meaning, whether it's
author or not. And in the great de
bate which Mr.. Adams message evok.
ed, Daniel Webster made one of his
great speeches, in which he declared
That the whole idea and intent of Mr..
Monroe's doctrine was that this coun-
try would meet any attempt of an ALI
ance OF European sovereigns to over
throw republican institutions in this
country, and substitute for them des |
potic. monarchical institutions with all
ts power. We shall quote extensively
rom Mr.. Webster's speech morrow.
And that was the idea and the whole
dea OF Mr.: Monroe's declaration. It'll
vas political. and had no reference to
boundary disputes or claims for DAM
lges growing out of injuries. 1t was
Intended to say that America was the
ana OF the free, who intended to live
inoer Tree republican governments,
lAu tnat THESE United States would
permit no Holy Alliance or any 9th.
= combination OF despotic monarchs
% como here with their armies and
republican institutions and
et up IN tnelr stead the despotic, mo
ria. and Prussia In his Thirty Years
q the Senate. Thomas H. Benton inl
living an account of Mr.. Adams mes
age referred to, says:
s"The circumstances of the commun;.
alton render it incredible that Mr.
adams could be deceived in his under.
landing of the Monroe doctrine. and
ccording to him, this Monroe doctrine,I
according to which. it has been of late
that the United States were
stand guard over the two Americas
nd repulse all instrusive colopistsj
rom their shores), was entirely confin
q 10 our own borders; that it was oulv
to get the other States of the
ew world to agree that, each for it.
Ell, anG Dy It's own means. shouIdl
uard It's own territories; and conse
uently, that the United States. 40 far
rom extending gratultous protection-l
D the territories of other States. wonldl
either give nor receive aid in apy snch
Enterprise, but each should use it's
wn means, within it's own borders for
g own exemptions from Eur,rean
olonial intrusion
Ii, therefore, Senator Mitchell and
n Roosevelt will only study the Mou-
% doctrine, and the history of the
erlod when it was announced. thew
III ind that the Monroe doctrine new
had the faintest reference to Eu
'pean powersacquiring territoryin the
lmerlcas, unless it was in furtherance
secret plan to overthrow republi-
70 institutions and set up monarchi-
u Institutions in their place.
All OF which goes to show that the
nl.eo States have gone of most abb
,Fiiy INTO Mysteries aud conniption
., tnat the people who take part in
Dry short time,r