" This principle
will apply with greatly increased force should any European power
attempt to establish any new colony in North America. In the existing
circumstances of the world, the present is deemed a proper occasion to
reiterate and reaffirm the principle avowed by Mr. Monroe, and to state
my cordial concurrence in its wisdom and sound policy. The reassertion
of this principle, especially in reference to North America, is at this
day but the promulgation of a policy which no European power should
cherish the disposition to resist. Existing rights of every European
nation should be respected, but it is due alike to our safety and our
interests that 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 our settled policy that no future European
colony or dominion shall with our consent be planted or established on
any part of the North American continent.
Our own security requires that the established policy thus announced
should guide our conduct, and this applies with great force to the
peninsula of Yucatan.
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