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Civilian lt;fc TelegraphCUMBERLAND, MI)such power to obtain new footholds for monarchical governments sustained by a foreign military foroo in near proximity to the United = I States. [Long continued applause ]| Thus it will be seen that the people of the j United States, Congress, the President, aud I the great party which elevated him to the high position he now holds,havo fully indorsed and rc-affirmcd that doctrine since the causes upon which the existing agitation is based ! have arisen before the country, and we doubt ! not movements nrc already on foot for its perfect vindication.WILL H- LOWDERMILK, Editor-THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1865.MEXICO AND THE MONROE DOCTRINE.After four years of desolating war, the people of the United States have no very cordinl desire to again engage in a conflict of nrms. Their greatest wish is to reconstruct society and dispel all the evidences of the fierce strife in which they wore ro long engaged. Yet we rannot possibly close our eyes to the con Jition of affairs in Mexico. The attention of our statesmen and our people is centered upon the unjust interference of Prance in the nffairs of our sister Republic, and eminent (funerals, Cabinet officers, influential politicians and the press generally aro urging the propriety—the absolute necessity—on the part of the Federal Government, of cxpulling the P ion eh from Mexico, and vindicating the Monroe doctrine, it is perfectly natural that the presence of a foreign power in Mexico, in violation of an Amcrioan doctrine, which, since 1823, has bt.cn regarded as essential in the policy of tho country, should excite our national pride and honor to such an extent as to create a popular demand for foreign war if nceessury to re-establish tliut doctrine, for the American people can not easily surrender any long established principle of national policy. Wc certainly most earnestly desire a peaceful solution of the troubles which for two years past have been gathering upon us from the direction of Mexico, yet we can see no meant: of bringing about such an event other than the voluntary evacuution of the country by the French army and the Emperor, who has been foisted upon tho Mexican people by his Master, Lons IN’apolbon. No fact is more firmly fixed iu the minds of tho American people tlinn that the Empire must fall, and if Maximilian cannot find his way out of the country, in the language of Gen. Willicii, “we must show him the way out by the light of the same bayonets that brought liberty to the sunny South.” This sentiment of the old General found a ready response in the heart and voice of every soldier who heard him, and to-day it finds ono equally as hearty in the bosom of every citixen who has at heart the future welfare and prosperity of his country.The presence of a foreign military power in Mexico is a standing insult to us ns a nation. Taking advantage of our domcstio troubles the French Emperor sent to a helpless country his thousands of bayonets, and forced upon tho people a form of government obnoxious to them in the extreme. What his leading object was is clear to every mind.— lie thought tho time had come when he could, without difficulty, obtain a foothold on the soil of America, and eventually become the ruling power, inasmuch as he was firmly convinced of the ultiuiato success of the Rebellion. Rut this astuto Emperor has for once been disappointed. Ilis “vaulting ambition has o’crlcnped itself,” and lie now finds himself c.oni polled to accept either one or the other of the two horns of a dilemma, both of which have the property of being very uninviting, to say tho least. The whole thing may be summed up in a few words: lie must cither “back out” or get whipped.President Monhok, in his memorable message of 1823, which gave birth to the great doctrine on which tho French troops are now trampling, under the protended authority of Maximilian, said :With the existing colonics or dependencies of any European power wo havo not interfered and shull not interfere. Rut with the governments who hnvc declared their independence and maintained it, and whose independence wc have on great consideration and on just principles acknowledged, wc could not view nny interposition for the purpose of oppressing them or controlling in any other light than ns a manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.The independence of Mexico was long since recognized by our national authorities and today the Minister of the Mexican Republic is acknowledged at Washington City. This principle announced by President Monkob. more than forty years since, has been identified in the American mind with tho idea of national integrity itself, and it cannot now be surrendered without repudiating a policy upon which the country’s pride is staked. The Congress of the United States has never failed to affirm this policy, whenever an occasion aroso for so doing. On the 4th of April, 1804, the following resolution was unanimously adopted by the House of Representatives]:Hetulvcd, That tho Congress of the United States are unwilling by silence to leave the nations of tho world under the impression that they are indifferent spectators of tho deplorable cvonts now transpiring in tho republic of Mexico, therefore they think it fit to declare that it does not accord with tho people of the United States to acknowledge a monarchial government erected on the ruins of any republican government in Amorica, under the auspices of any European power.The Ealtimore Convention, which, on the 8th of June, 1864, nominated Mr. Lincoln and Mr Joiinson for the Presidency and Vioe Presidency, adopted unanimously and •i apart of their platform, tho following response to the above reaolution :Hetohed. That we approve the position taken by the Government that the people of the United States can never regard with indifference the attempt of any European power to overthrow by force, or to supplant by fraud, tho institutions of any republican government on the Weotern continent. [Prolonged applause.] And that they will view with extreme jesldusy, as menacing to the peace and independence of this our country, the efforts of any
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