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Volume XI]
POLITICAL SCIENCE
QUARTERLY.
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
WHETHER the student of history and politics will find
in the study of what is commonly called the Monroe
Doctrine encouragement or discouragement, depends upon his
attitude toward the question propounded by Sir William Ham-
ilton : Is truth, or is the mental exercise in the pursuit of
truth, the superior end ? If he must have the truth, he can
find it; but in the multitude and variety of interpretations pro-
posed to him, he will require great firmness of mind to hold
fast to it when he has found it. If, on the other hand, he
merely seeks indefinite exercise, this may be readily obtained
in following what is fast becoming, if it has not already become,
the ignisfatuus of American politics.
The object of this essay is to show the actual meaning and
limitations of President Monroe's declarations, as they were
understood at the time, and their subsequent history and
perversions. In order that nothing essential to an understand-
ing of the subject may be lacking, I will quote all the passages
in President Monroe's message that have been cited as con-
taining the expression of his doctrine :
[i] At the proposal of the Russian imperial government, made
through the minister of the Emperor residing here, a full power and
instructions have been transmitted to the minister of the United States
at St. Petersburg, to arrange, by amicable negotiation, the respective
rights and interests of the two nations on the northwest coast of
Marck, 1896.
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