. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. panish colonies l)egan to try to free themselves from the op-pressive rule of Spain, and to become Republics like theUnited States. This made the monarchs of Europe anxious and uneasy,lest so many Republics here would prove that people generallycould take care of themselves, and when Spain Avas not ableto subdue her rel)ellious colonies, the other European nationswere ready to help her. The leading nations of Europe hadalready formed an alliance with the apparent purpose of aid-ing one another in putting down rebellion at
. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. panish colonies l)egan to try to free themselves from the op-pressive rule of Spain, and to become Republics like theUnited States. This made the monarchs of Europe anxious and uneasy,lest so many Republics here would prove that people generallycould take care of themselves, and when Spain Avas not ableto subdue her rel)ellious colonies, the other European nationswere ready to help her. The leading nations of Europe hadalready formed an alliance with the apparent purpose of aid-ing one another in putting down rebellion at home, and ourpeople feared that this alliance would send soldiers to SouthAmerica to help Spain subdue her colonies. Now it would not have been right for us to allow the rulersof Europe to destroy the little weak Republics south of us,and President Monroe thouglit that this should be so statedthat the world Avould know that we would not allow foreignrulers to ruin our neii2:hbors. He therefore in a messas^e tocongress (1823), said that we would not interfere with the. THE MONROE DOCTRINE. 257 LESSON.—France set up an empire in Mexico. The United Statesforced her to ■withdraw her armies. The troubles of Great Britain andGermany w^ith Venezuela ■were settled through our good services. political affairs of Europe, nor with the existing Europeancolonies in this country, but that any attempt to control thosecolonies that had become independent, would be consideredby the United States as an unfriendly act, and that Europeanpowers should not try to colonize any part of America. This statement is called the Monroe Doctrine and ourpeople have accepted it as binding upon us, while Europeannations have generally observed it, and when trying to evadeit, have failed. Thus, in 1861, France, England, and Spain attempted tocompel ^Mexico to pay a debt they claimed she owed and Spain simply urged Mexico to pay them, butFrance, taking advantage of our internal troubles, sent
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