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Venezuela, to adopt for them such form of government as the people
thereofs are mature for. In the cases of Mexico and Venezuela, and in the
case of Hayti, has not found him to us necessary never to interfere or to
everybody. It is not apparent yet because we should find him/it necessary to interfere
with islands so very more remote from us that Hayti, and that Mexico and
Venezuela, as it is Philippines.
In this matter we can afford so well to be constant, as
logical. Our fundamental principles, those of the Declaration the
Constitution and the Doctrine of Monroe, have not been shown for being yet
defective--because we should be in a hurry abandon them? Our
precedents are to course of hand near, and satisfactory--because it bewares away of them
to follow those of Great Britain? Because it has need us, to the sudden one we are this way
a lot of English and so together French, also the loan their nomenclature
of "imperialism?" Also, because it is not able us in the language of Burke, both
happy to put our feet "in the footsteps of our ancestors, where we am able
vague neither does it stumble?" The only difficulty in the way of ours this way
doing seems to be that we am in a hurry; while natural
influences and methods, although in the great end indisputably the more wise man
and better always asks for time in, that to work out him to them
results. More essay of the Almighty in our his/her own conceitedness, we think to get
there immediately; the "there" in this case that is "guardianship" eternal, as
in India, instead of the last self-government as in Mexico.
The policy till now pursued by us in such cases,--the policy of
"Hand-street", and "it Walks alone", it is separately American; it is not
European, not also British. It recognizes the principles of ours
Declaration of independence. It recognizes the truth that entirely only
government exists from the approval of the they governed. It recognizes the
existence of the Doctrine of Monroe. In a word, it recognizes, each