Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1895 — What the Monroe Doctrine Is. [ARTICLE]

What the Monroe Doctrine Is.

From the Message of President Monroe to Congress, Dec. 2, 1823. We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and the allied powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any I part of this hemisphere as dangerj ous to our peace and safety. With | the existing colonies or independencies of any European power we have not interfered and s.hall not interfere; but with the governments who have declared their independence and maintained it, and whose indepedence we have on great consideration and just principles acknowb j edged, we could not view any . interposition for the purpose of opj pressing them or controlling in any other manner their destiny by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition towards the United States.