Word: venezuelan
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Lowell was no more thoroughly convinced that the Mexican war was a sin against humanity than we are that a war with England about the Venezuelan frontier would be the great crime of the age. No one pretends that we ought to threaten war merely in defence of Venezuela; but we are told that we must rally to the defence of the "Monroe! Doctrine." This doctrine is now more than seventy years old, and it is its spirit rather than its letter with which we are concerned now. As I understand it, I hold it in the highest respect...
...twenty-first of last month a few men wrote as members of Harvard University, calling on all Harvard men to oppose the government's stand on the Venezuelan question...
...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 our position in the Venezuelan matter; but I earnestly hope that Harvard will be saved from the discredit of advising such a course...
...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; and if the European power refuses...
...question has been one of diplomatic importance for some years and was the subject of earnest consideration by the administration in 1888 when letters passed between Secretary of State Bayard and Minister Phelps on the matter of British encroachment on Venezuelan territory; and Secretary Bayard wrote then "If indeed it appear there is no fixed limit to the British boundary claim, our good disposition to aid in a settlement might not only be defeated, but be obliged to give place to a feeling of grave concern." I think this shows President Cleveland's present action is not hasty...