But it has often been asked, and sometimes by eminent English writers, whether the Americans have not, at the same time, fatally unsettled the Monroe Doctrine, which never, indeed, had the sanction of International Law, but to which they were known to attach the greatest importance.
Reid discusses concerns raised by English writers about the potential impact of American actions on the Monroe Doctrine.
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Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?
Spain failed to maintain her title to the security she had pledged, but the lenders knew the instability of that security when they risked their money on it.
We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.
But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?