Seventy seven years ago these words were put to by the hand of the Great Statesman George Monroe paper and issued to all the nations of Europe:
The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers... We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere. But with the Governments who have declared their independence and maintained it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States."
Though many years and incredible turmoil has changed the shape of these two continents, these truths still resonate with those of us who have thrown off the foreign yoke of oppression.
As such, we of the Congress of the Confederate States of America reaffirm these statements, and call upon all the Nations of the Americas to do the same.
