Show MONROE DOCTRINE ORIGIN ETC I 1 in i the last issue of the BROAD ax ax were vere published some important letter pass passing in between president james monroe and thomas jefferson avith reference to what labebe later became the monroe doctrine it will be remembered that the president in the letter to mr jef fers ferson expressed a desire for an op opinion irloa from mr james madison spoil the great question mr matisons Madi sons letter of response was a follows oct 30 1823 df DEB a SIR I 1 have received from mr jefferson your letter to him with the correspondence between mr ir canning and mr rush se sent ut for his and my perusal and our opinions on the subject of it from the disclosures of mr canning it appears as was otherwise to be inferred that the of france against spain would be followed by attempts of the holy alliance to reduce the revolutionized colonies of the latter to their former dependence the professions we have made to th these neighbors our sympathy with their liberties and independence the deep interests we have in the most friendly relations with them and the consequence threatened by a command of their resources by the great reat powers federated confederated con against n the rights and reforms of which we have given so conspicuous aud and persuasive an example all unite lu calling for our efforts to defeat the meditated crusade it is particularly fortunate that the policy of 0 great britain tho guided br by calculations different from ours fi ha s presented a operation cooperation co for an object the same as ours with that operation cooperation co we have notha nothing i g to fear from the rest of europe and with it the best reliance on success to our just and laudable views there ought 19 not to be any backwardness ward ness therefore I 1 think m in i meeting her in the way she has proposed keeping in view of course the spirit and forms forma of the constitution in every step taken in m i the road to war which must be the last step if those short of war should be without avail it cannot be doubted that mr cannings proposal tho made with the air of consultation as well as concert was founded on a predetermination mi to take the course marked out whatever might be the recep tion given here to his hia invitation but this consideration ought not to divert us from what is just and proper in itself our operation cooperation co is is d due ue to ourselves and to the world and whilst it must ensure success iu iti the event of an appeal to force it doubles the chance of success without that appeal it is not im improbable that great britain would like best to have the sole merit of being champion of her new friends notwithstanding the greater difficulty to be encountered but for the dile dilemma mma in which she would w be placed she must in that cue case either leave us as neutrals to extend our commerce and nay navigation tation at the expense of hers or make us enemies by bv renewing her paper blockades and ad other arbitrary proceedings on the ocean it may be hoped that such a dilemma wm will not be without a permanent tendency to check her proneness pron eneas to nn necess wars wara why the british cabinet should have scrupled to arrest the calamity it now apprehends by applying to the threats of prance france against spain the small effort which it scruples not to employ on an behalf of spanish america is best known to itself it is difficult to find any other explanation than that interest inte reit in the one cawby case has more weight in in her casuistry than principle had W in the other will it not be honora honorably bli to oil our coull country try and possible not altogether al ta in vain tomy tomylee tee british government to ei dahe il avowed rowed disapprobation against b C al enterprise of oe yi aranci R SP am herself and 4 t declaratory act in behalf of the greeks on the supposition that no fro form could be given to the act clearing it of a pledge to follow it up by war we ought to compare the good to be done with the little anit injury u U to be app ti ended to the united ed states shielded as their in interests teresta would be by the power and the fleets of great britain united with their own these are questions however which may require more information than I 1 possess and moe mo e reflects reflect reflection i on than I 1 can now give them what is the extent of mr can niga disclaimer to the remaining rema remaining inin 9 possessions of spain in america does it exclude future views of acquiring airing porto rico etc as well as cuba it leaves great britain free as I 1 understand it in relation to spanish possessions in other quarters of the globe I 1 return return the correspondence of mr B R and mr C with the high eat respect and sincerest sine erest regard james madison the letter written by mr madison to mr jefferson is as follows NOV 1 1823 SIR I 1 return the letter of the president the correspond ence from abroad has back to him as you desired I 1 have expressed i to him my concurrence in the policy of meeting the advances of the british government having an eye to the forms of our constitution in every step in the road to war with the british power and navy combined with our own we have nothing to fear from the rest of the nations nation and in the great struggle of the epoch between liberty and despotism we owe it to ourselves 0 ur selves to sustain the former in this hemisphere at least I 1 have even suggested an invitation to the british government to join in applying this small effort for so much good to the french invasion of spain and to make greece an object of some such favorable attention why mr canning and his colleagues did not sooner interpose against the caM calamity mity which could not have escaped foresight cannot be otherwise explained but by the different aspect of the question when it related to liberty in spain and to the extension of british commerce to her former colonies health and every other blessing james 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