Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...than that he referred solely to attempts on the part of the allied powers of Europe "to extend their system" to this hemisphere. he says: "It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent [i.e. either North or South America] without endangering our peace and happiness...
...Spain and Bourbon France. And our republic was then in its infancy, and its safety was certainly imperilled by this powerful combination of European despotisms. Can any one without a smile ask what is there now to be compared with this? Would England extend any "political system" to South america which could in any sense endanger "our peace and happiness?" When the last French Empire undertook to establish an empire in Mexico, while our Southern states were in rebellion, we were justified in resisting so obvious an attack on the very existence of our government. We must...
...many men. In spite of our familiarity with the name of the Monroe Doctrine the question of our present foreign policy comes as a new one, so long have we happily been exempt from any serious complication, and we are now totally unprepared with any definite policy respecting South America which can command general public support. Discussion is above all what is wanted, and discussion the most radical and searching, for the importance of the decision can not be overestimated. It is not a question of triumphing over England on the particular issue now raised. That is of inferior importance...
...permanent and political union between an European and an American state unnatural and inexpedient;" if it does involve this what shall be our position about Canada; does it involve the position. once taken by our government, that South America controversies can not be arbitrated by European powers; is it for the interest of the human race that a peaceable settlement of South America by European colonies be forbidden; is it for our selfish interest so to forbid them, or would our commercial interests be advanced by having the continent populated as fast as possible; shall we permit South Americans...
...second prize of not less than four hundred dollars, to be known as the Loubat Prizes, shall be awarded in the year 1898, and in every fifth year thereafter, to the author of the best works on the history, geography, archaeology, ethnology, philology, or numismatics of North America. The competition for these prizes shall be open to all persons, whether citizens of the Unites States or of any other country...