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... United States of America reversed the process ; out of communities which had never been anything but bits of Europe set in the western hemisphere , they constructed a new nation . This process and its results were very unwelcome to ...
... United States of America reversed the process ; out of communities which had never been anything but bits of Europe set in the western hemisphere , they constructed a new nation . This process and its results were very unwelcome to ...
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... United States . On the other hand , commercial interest moved the people of the United States to seek closer relations with Spain . In 1795 a commercial treaty was secured which , however , did not apply to the colonies . With the ...
... United States . On the other hand , commercial interest moved the people of the United States to seek closer relations with Spain . In 1795 a commercial treaty was secured which , however , did not apply to the colonies . With the ...
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... United States to administer to their wants without being engaged in their quarrels . " No supreme wisdom was necessary to discover that the United States desired neither aid nor interference from Europe . The other half of the two ...
... United States to administer to their wants without being engaged in their quarrels . " No supreme wisdom was necessary to discover that the United States desired neither aid nor interference from Europe . The other half of the two ...
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... United States of America as forming a weight in that balance of power in Europe which never can be forgotten or neglected . It would not only be against our interest , but it would be doing wrong to one - half of Europe , at least , if ...
... United States of America as forming a weight in that balance of power in Europe which never can be forgotten or neglected . It would not only be against our interest , but it would be doing wrong to one - half of Europe , at least , if ...
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... United States , or even inside our water boundaries , the policy of neutrality was neces- sary and successful . The United States rendered a service to mankind by clearly insisting on the rights of neutral trade . When the European war ...
... United States , or even inside our water boundaries , the policy of neutrality was neces- sary and successful . The United States rendered a service to mankind by clearly insisting on the rights of neutral trade . When the European war ...
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Page 318 - Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.
Page 67 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America. This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective governments.
Page 11 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world — so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements.
Page 68 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same; which is not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers...
Page 68 - It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness; nor can any one believe that our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord.
Page 124 - Canal ; agreeing that neither will ever erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same, or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito Coast, or any part of Central America...
Page 209 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Page 203 - To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Page 67 - It was stated at the commencement of the last session that a great effort was then making in Spain and Portugal to improve the condition of the people of those countries, and that it appeared to be conducted with extraordinary moderation. It need scarcely be remarked that the result has been so far very different from what was then anticipated. Of events in that quarter of the globe with which we have so much intercourse and from which we derive our origin, we have always...
Page 11 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.