...the efficient protection of our laws should be extended over our whole territorial limits, and that it should be distinctly announced to the world as...established on any part of the North American Continent. Three years later, President Polk, in a special message, called the attention of Congress to the appeal...

...colonization by any European powar," and "that no FUTURE European colony or dominion shall, with their consent, be planted or established on any part of the North American continent." Now, sir, before I vote for this resolution, I desire to understand, with clearness and precision,...

...continents are not open to European colonization; and the clause immediately succeeding it, which says that "no future European colony or dominion" shall, with our consent, be planted on the North American continent, who can doubt that Great Britain will feel herself authorized to construe...

...safety and our interests that our laws should be spread over our whole territorial limits, " and that it should be distinctly announced to the world, as...established on any part of the North American Continent." At home the words of Polk were warmly approved. The people, it was said, are delighted with the patriotic...

...the efficient protection of our laws should be extended over our whole territorial limits; and that it should be distinctly announced to the world as...consent, be planted or established on any part of the NorthAmerican continent." It will be seen that Mr. Polk quotes no part of Mr. Monroe's message except...

...announced to the world, as our settled polifj, that no future European colony or dominion shall, with OE consent, be planted or established on any part of the North American Continent." At home the words of Polk were warmly approved. The people, it was said, are delighted with the patriotic...

...in his message of December 2d, 1845, and frequently reiterated it. He declared in that message that it should be distinctly — announced to the world...established on any part of the North American continent. The insertion of the word "dominion" does not alter the sense of the broad doctrine of Monroe, but...

...protest of President Monroe against "future colonization by any European powers," when he said that "it should be distinctly announced to the world as...established on any part of the North American continent." The step backward, taken at the making of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty of 1850, — in which the United...

...the efficient protection of our laws should be extended over our whole territorial limits, and that it should be distinctly announced to the world as...established on any part of the North American continent. Our own security requires that the established policy thus announced should guide our conduct, and...

...European attack. The Polk Doctrine, starting from Mr. Monroe's statement about colonization, says: (i) "It should be distinctly announced to the world as...established on any part of the North American continent;" and again, quoting Mr. Monroe as opposing the extension of the European system to this hemisphere,...