Monroe Doctrine

Name given to a scheme of public policy outlined in his Me age, Dec. 2, 1823, by Pres. Monroe We owe it therefore to Cantor, ant to the amicable relakis existing between. the i Unikd States and More Powers; to declare hat eve should consider any allemph on theu pard to extend their system to any portion. dangerous to our of thes Hemisphere, peace and safety. With the existing Colb nies or sependencies of any European Journ we have crot interfered, and shall not enkr fere. Rut with the Governments whe kan Declared their troependence, and maintain me it, and whore Independence we have, on greu Consider a kon, and on pist minciples, acknow ledged, we could not view arg inter pos cho for the purpose of opprefeng her, or Cor hoalong in any other manner their destinng by any European Power, in any other light as the manifestation of an unfrien by disposition towards the United States. Mar Fac-simile of a portion of Monroe's Me age. and practically though never formally adopted by the U. S. It was much quoted 1895-96 in relation to the boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela.