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Monroe doctrine. Wo view the matter in an

altogether different light; and we suepect the

Pott would have been eilent upon the subject

if, instead of opposing the sanguinary

schemes of Soulouquc, President Fillmore had

abetted and aided tbem. A morbid sympathy

for the unseen and imaginary suffurings and

wrongs of the negro, no matter in'wii&t condition,

is the real provocation of the censure which the

conduct of the Administration has encountered

from the abolitionists; for surely the distinction

is so plain and palpable between the mediation of

France and Great Britain in b'.imlf of Dominica

and the intervention against which Mr. Monroe

protested, that no unprejudiced mind can confound

them. The Monroe declaration was levelled

against European colonization on this continent

against a hostile or aggressive intervention, designed

to subserve the interests of- the usurping

powar, and involving some probable conflict with

the rights and welfare of this country. In co operating

with this Government in the endeavor

to effect the pacification of Hnyti, Great Britain

and France acted from 110 selfish policy. Besought

by the Dominicans to protect them from

slaughter and rapine, the mediating powers interfered

for this, and for no oilier purpose. A feeble

community was threatened with the savage vengeance

of a brutal and barbarian foe; and to shield

it from destruction. Great Britain and France,

with the assent and co-opcralion of ttie United

States, undertook to avert tiie impending blow.

And this was the intervention which the Evtning

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The republic. (1852). Washington [D.C.], 1852-12-24. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82014434/1852-12-24/ed-1/?sp=2

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The republic, 1852-12-24.