Word: stated
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
Board of Overseers. Stated Meeting at No. 50 State St., Boston...
...have seen a newspaper statement that various professors and students of Harvard have urged through your columns the Harvard graduates and undergraduates to bring such pressure as they could upon Senators and Congressmen in order to prevent their upholding the honor and dignity of the United States by supporting the President and the Secretary of State in their entirely proper attitude on the Venzuelan question. I do not believe that any considerable number either of Senators or Congressmen wonld consent to betray the American cause, the cuase not only of national honor but in reality of international peace, by abandoning...
...Monroe Doctrine forbids us to acquiesce in any territorial aggrandizement by a European power on American soil at the expense of an American state. If people wish to reject the Monroe Doctrine in its entirety, their attitde, though discreditable to their farsighted patriotism, is illogical; but let no one pretend that the present Venezuelan case does not come within the strictest view of the Monroe Doctrine. If we permit a European nation in each case itself to decide whether or not the territory which it wishes to seize is its own, then the Monroe Doctrine has no real existence...
...stock-jobbing timidity, the Baboo kind of statemanship, which is clamored for at this moment by the men who put monetary gain before national honor, or who are still intellectually in a state of colonial dependence on England, would in the end most assuredly invite war. A temperate but resolute insistence upon our rights is the surest way to secure peace. If Harvard men wish peace with honor they will heartily support the national executive and national legislature in the Venezuela matter; will demand that our representatives insist upon the strictest application of the Monroe Doctrine; and will farther demand...