Excerpt from Spain, Cuba, and the United States: Recognition and the Monroe Doctrine
The United States, under all circumstances, have refused to intervene in the internal affairs of other nations. They have uniformly maintained the strict policy of non-intervention during the entire existence of the nation, thus following out the wise policy established by Washington under his beneficent administration. During this period, there have been great occasions to induce a departure from this policy of the Republic, especially when Spanish America was dismembered, and this people, following our example, renounced all political connection with Spain, and founded several sister republics. But, adhering firmly to our early policy, we maintained it during all these exciting struggles for free governments on this continent; and, in order to check a threatened intervention by allied Europe, being then encouraged by England, we announced the policy now known as the Monroe doctrine, which is, opposition to any European intervention in the affairs of America. Considering the weakness of the then United States, in 1823, it was a brave protest against the threatened action of the Holy Alliance, in reference to the affairs of the South American States, and, united to the attitude of England, it checked that threatened interference. Since that time, and while we were almost broken up by our late convulsion, France, England, and Spain invaded Mexico to compel redress of national grievances; but Spain and England immediately withdrew from Mexico when they discovered that Napoleon had other views, and had broken the Convention of London, upon which the intervention was founded. That intervention is too fresh to be narrated. It caused the disastrous attempt of Maximilian to found a monarchy upon Mexican soil, and the final withdrawal of the French, and his melancholy death.
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