New Britain herald., 1915-07-09
lIlI IERICAlVISl DISCUSSED BY J. B. MOORE
Dliilsellor Of State Department Sheds Interest Iforical Lights on Relations Between U. s.
 and States of South America.

tral,' he deemed it to be of tho utmost importance to them to adopt and cb- l serve 8 liberal system of neutrality. which all America would be inter- ested in maintaining and enforcing. l Clay's motion for a diplomatic mis- l sion to the River Platte was lost by an overwhelming vote, and it was nearly two years before the agita- l ton in Congress concerning South America was again taken up. In the eloquent speech with which Clay l then supported his proposal, he af- l firmed that the people of that con tirent were not unfit for freedom. ]" as some asserted were, in some par 1 ticulars, "in advance of sus"-In one particular they were greatly in ad- canoe of us." This was, that Gran ada, Venzuela. and Buenos Aires had emancipated their slaves.
 U. s. Center Of System.
 Clay, rising to the height of his argument, exclaimed
 It is in. our power to create a system of which we shall be the cen
 ter, and in which all South America will act with us. In respect to com merce, we should be most benefted
 .f... We should become the center of system which would constitute the rallying point of human wisdom against all the despotisn1 of the Old World .as.. In spite of our coldnsss; towards them. .. he had no earthly doubt, if our government would take the lead and recognize them, that they would become yet more anxious to initiate our institutions, and to sc- cure to themselves and to their pos. terity the same freedom which we joy
 The opinion of the friends of free- dom in Europe was, he declared, that the policy of the United States had been cold, heartless, and indifferent upwards the greatest cause which could possibly engage sour affections and enlist our feelings in it's behalf, He would no longer justify this inn pression. He would break the com mercial and political letters by which the New World had so long been confined Let us, he exclaimed, be come real and true Americans and place ourselves at the head of the American system
 Clay carried his resolution finally by vote of eighty to seventy-five, but N the measure only expressed an opin- ion in favor of diplomatic representa- ton, and did not actually provide for it. A year later, in 1921, Clay re- newed his agitation and carried resolution which expressed interest in the success of the South American provinces in their struggles for lib- erty, and pledged constitutional SUD- port to the president of the United States If he should deem it expedient to recognize the sovereignty and in dependence of any of them. Tn an- other year the president came to the opinion that recognition should no longer be withheld, and Clay's fight for an appropriation for diplomatic representation was finally won.
 Monroe Doctrine in 1923.
 MT. Moore referred to the fact that the Monroe Doctrine was written two of the relations of the United States with the other independent countries of the hemisphere remained to be fully determined and defined BoH- var, then at the head Of the Repub- lie of Peru, suggested the holding of conference of representatives of all the independent governments at Pan- anna. His invitation did not include the United States "F'or this oTrais- sion," said Mir. Moore, "a sufficient reason may be found in the circum- stance that the United States was not a party to the conflict then still in progress between Spain and her for mer colonies, but it has also been con- Jectured that the existence of African slavery was regarded by Bolivar as an obstacle to the free discussion of some of the matters of which theGon- gress might be obliged to treat.',0
 However this may be-. continued MT. Moore, the first intimation that the presence of the United States was desired was made by the representa- tives of Colombia and Mexico in com 1 yersations with Clay, who had become 1 secretary of state. The president. ! John Quincy Adams, although he had l warmly espoussd the cause of the l American nations, as against any hos i tile projects of the holy alliance. felt | obliged to proceed with caution, since the United States was maintaining in l the Spanish-American conflict a 1leu- | traI position; but there can be no l doubt that Clay warmly urged that the 1 invitation be accepted.'
 The Invitation was accepted and American plenipotentiaries were ap- 1 pointed
 Instructions to Delegates.
 MT Moore told how the instructions 1 then read to the effect that it was not the intention of the United States to change it's pacific and neutral policy and that, therefore, while the con- 1 gress probably would consider the fu- ture prosecution of the war with 1 Spain, the delegates of the United States were not to enter into that dis cussion The delegates said MT. Moore. were to bring forward the 1 proposition to abolish war against private property and non-conabatants i