Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-01-25

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v WASHINGTON, Jan. n. rhe follow
ing preamble and resolution Was ~
ported To the Senate yesterday ~ @en
ator Davis, of Minnesota, and pIaeed
on the calendar. B.
Resolcsd, by the senate, The bouso "a
Representative concurring. that
WHEREAS, President Monroe IA hie
message to congress- of December sec-
ond Ammo Domini I823 deemed II proper
to assert ns o principle IA which the
rights and interests Of the United
State are involved, that The American
BY the free and independ-
ent condition which they Ind assumed
and maintained, were thenceforth not
to be considered as subjects for future
colonization BY my European power;
and N
WHEREAS, President Monroe further
declared III that message that the
| United States would consider any At
tcnApt Ihy the. Al ia pasx xers a f'lzrope
| To extend their system to any portion
Of this hemisphere as dangerous to our
peace and safety; that with the exist
| ing colonies and dependencies Of any
European power we have not inter-
fered and should not Interfere; but
that with the governments who have
declared their independence and
maintained it, and whose Independence
we have on great consideration and
just principles acknowledged, we
could not view any interposition
for the purpose Of expressing them, or
controlling in any other manner their
destiny, by any European power, in
any other light than as the manifesto
tion Of an unfriendly disposition to-
wards the United States, and further
reiterated in that message that It is
impossible that the allied powers
should extend their political system to
any portion of either continent with
out endangering our peace and happi-
ness; and
WHEREAS, The doctrine and policy
SO proclaimed by President Monroe
have since been repeatedly asserted by
the United States, by executive declara-
tion and action upon occasions and
exigencies similar to the particular oc-
casion and exigency which caused them
to be first announced, and have been
ever since their promulgation, and now
are the rightful policy of the United
States; therefore be it
Resolred, That the United States OF
America reaffirms and confirms the
doctrine and principles promulgated by
President Monroe in his message of
December q 1923, and declares that it
will assert and maintain the doctrine
and those principles, and will regard
any infringement thereof, and par
ticularly any attempt by any Euro
ropean power to take or acquire
any new or additional territory on the
American continent, or any island adj
| jacent thereto, or any right or
sovereignty. or dominion in the same,
in any case or instance as to which the
United States shall deem such attempt
to be dangerous to it's peace or safety,
or by or through force, purchase, ces-
sion, occupation, pledge, coloniza-
ton, protectorate or by con-
4 troll. 4eof the ~casement in any
canal or any other means of
transit across the American isthmus,
whether under uufounded pretension
of right in cases of alleged boundary
disputes. or under any other unfound-
ed pretension as the manifestation of
an unfriendly disposition toward the
United States, and as an interposition
which it would be impossible, in any
form, for the United States to regard
| with indifference