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Show Tin: .momiiii: nuiriiilM'. ltrrriir.M'1: It frequently made to the "Monroe doctrine" by wrllera who deal with the exlillngdlaorder lu South American counlilea, I'.urufean na-tlona, na-tlona, especially (Irral llrltaln and (lermany, have large I uteri ela In the Latin republic. Hrcutatlvn polltl clam ajiert that In the end Lurupe muit loevltably become Involved (o protect her Inteffati. In one of the llrailllan Hlatr, now (n revolt analr.it the Fouaica government, there are fifty Prrmtn eettlementa, all proa-ieroua proa-ieroua and peaceful. Hbould a contingency con-tingency arlae by which then colonial may demand the protacllou of the Fatherland, what would th attitude of the United Htatea lie? Thtt la tbe query which dlrccle attention at-tention on tbe part of American to the Monroe dqcttlne. In tnatlngof thlthletorlcally one mint begin with the treaty of Obent, concluded Dec. II, Hit, two wreka before lh fatnuu Utile of New Orleani, Article i, 1, 7 and S provided for the eetllimeutof boundary line below u llrltlili America Amer-ica and the United Htatea by commit-alone. commit-alone. Un of the leading atateemen of thla tlaie naa Jamea Mouror. II wa Hrcrelary of Htatp, aud alt) acted aa HrcrrUry of War under Madleon. Hu waa one of the mlnlilert who negotiated negotiat-ed the Ijouttlana purchaieln IS'11. He waaelectekl Prealdentln 110. Ilewna again elected In ISS). Atthletlmehe at, perhajei, the moat popular man In tbe United Htatea. 11 lh Mlaaourl coiupromlee of ISM, be wa liutrumeutal In tldlog the country over a very itangeroua cnala. He wavaUothe ineana of ol talnlng Florida from Hptln by peaceful peace-ful rueaua. Ho had no heeltatlou In recogulilug tbe Indeenlence of Mexico and the Houth American republic. re-public. Hla (dominant Idea waa: "neither lo cnUngloourtrtvte In the brulla of Kuropr, nor fuller the powere of Ibe Old World to Interfere Willi the affair of the New." Meanwhile uvgotlallou were going on lo carry out the pruvlalona ot the Treaty of (then!, but not ejccetitiilly. There waa wild talk about the probability proba-bility of eaUbllahlng a llrlllih Kmplre lu the North. There were aleo hint that Ituula in b do aomethlng tlmllar In Ibe Noithwett Thte rumore, combined with the In-tentlty In-tentlty uf feeling rxlatlug In the United Htatea, cauaod l'naldent Monroe, In hla eeventh annual uu a-tage a-tage to Congteae, December 2, 182a, to promulgate hi famoue doctrine, lu that rueaeage ho atated that the cum-mluloner cum-mluloner under the fifth article of tho treaty illiagtecd, and Ihemalterabould be rtferred to a friendly owir for arbitration. arbi-tration. There waa alao tomn uiU-underatandluf uiU-underatandluf with Iluiela about thla time. Theparagrali In themeiaago which contain tho doctrine ayt "At Ibo propoaal of tbe Ittiaaian Imperial Im-perial government, made tbrongh lb mlnlaterof the Kmiwror realdlng here, full )iower and Inatructlon bare been Itanainllted to tb mlnUlcr of lb United Hlate at HI. lYferahurg to arrange, by amlcabl negotiation, the reapertlve rlgbla anl lutereata ot Ibe two nation on Ibe uorlhtteat of tblaconll-nenU tblaconll-nenU A almtiar pmjioaal haa 1mm n ma Jo by bla Imperial Majeaty totbegoveru-ment totbegoveru-ment of Ureal llrltalu, which baa like. wlaobe accededto. In the dlaouvalona to whlv.1 Ibla Intcruat baa given rlae, and In the arrangement by ttblrhthey may terminate, Ihe occaalou haa been Judged proper for aaavrllng, aa principle In which Ibe right and lutereeta of Ibo United Htatea are Involved, Ibat tbe American conllnenta, by the free and In deiendeut omidltlon which they have aa. aumed and maintain, are henceforth nt lo be cnetiifereit na tutyrtt (r am mlurt cvlontiQttvn by auy Etroptan tower. " |
