contact with other nations by which alone relevant facts can be fully developed and common sense methods adopted for the solution of questions of common interest. The American people
are a proud people. They will tolerate no leadership which will surrender an iota of their independence or sovereignty to any other nation or combination of nations. Such an action on the part of any of our representatives would be regarded as treason and dealt with accordingly."
Here, for time being, endeth the trail of a tradition. It threads straight through the romance of the United States. It is a continuous, unbroken highway from yesterday to now. The Fathers surveyed it for posterity. Sometimes it has been uncertain, traversing a doubtful fog. Sometimes it has wavered in a momentary maze. But always it has blazed on through-the more remarkable for these hazardous vicissitudes. It is solidly paved with the triumphant experiences of some seven generations. It is flanked by the blessings of the years. Upon it have marched the feet of the finest, surest statesmen whom it has been America's benediction to possess. They have bequeathed to us this unmortgaged right of way. Along its sovereign roadstead are the markers and the mile-stones to make safe and sure the journeys of tomorrow's pilgrims -except they be blind pilgrims, having eyes, yet seeing not. It is a rugged trail of hard-bought freedom. No toll-road, this-with unwelcome
and unbidden mercenaries making alien levies on our liberties and rights. It is a shining trail of honor the honor of a great self-determining democracy which has traversed it to righteous glory. Reckless adventurers with nought to cherish and nought to lose soldiers of doubtful political fortune for whom speculation is a trade-may leave this highway for the by-paths and the detours and the proscribed entanglements of international experiment. High-purposed theorists, scorning the admonitions of yesterday, may clothe their call to other roads in all the habiliments of an evangelical crusade. But this independent Nation of justly proud Americans will meddle with such vagary only at its peril. The trail of a tradition beckons to the safer, surer way. It has been tried by prophets, patriots and patriarchs. It is wrought of the rock whence we are hewn.
Beaumarchais, 7, 8; re-paid, 41
Bergen County, Washington's
headquarters, 14
Berlin Decree, 157
Beveridge, Albert J., opinion of
Madison, 166
Blaine, James G., 308
Borah, Senator, speech on pay-
ment of French loans, 41;
quoted, 81; League of Nations
speech, 390
Bruce, Senator, quoted, 79
Bryan, William J., 351, 364
Buchanan, James, on Monroe
Doctrine, 217; expatriation,
269; becomes President, 283
Burr, Aaron, 144
Canada, border troubles, 262
Canning, George, 168, 201, 204
Carranza, 344
Castle, W. R., Jr., quoted, xix
"Chesapeake" affair, 160, 163,
168
Chile, "Baltimore" trouble, 310
China, neutrality under Buch-
anan, 287; "open door" under
Hay, 323
Clay, Henry, 179, 203, 254,
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, 328
Cleveland, Grover, Venezuela in-
cident, 223; becomes President,
306; talk with McKinley, 306;
Panama Canal views, 328
Clinton, Sir Henry, 21, 26
Clinton, Governor, seizes French
privateer, 100
Colombia, 329
Colorado, 268
Coolidge, Calvin, on Adams and
Washington, 23; becomes Presi-
dent, 396
Cornwallis, Lord, 26, 28
Crimean War, 281
Cuba, trouble under Fillmore,
276; under Grant, 291; punished
for "Virginius' affair, 294;
under Cleveland, 307; under
McKinley, 317
Czar of Russia, mediates, 178
Dawes, Charles G., quoted, 398
Decatur, Stephen, quoted, xiii,
148
De Kalb, Baron, 6, 10
De Medici, Lorenzo, 149
Diaz, Porfirio, 343
"Dolphin" incident, 345
Drago Doctrine, 230
England, peace overtures, 20;
protests ship captures, 96;
orders in council, 110; Jay
Treaty, 112; breaks peace of
Amiens, 155; Fox blockade, 156;
proposes to withdraw decrees,
168; War of 1812, 176; war
ends, 179; arbitrations with
America, 186; proposes joint
warning to Holy Alliance, 200;
gets Falkland Islands, 215;
trouble over Venezuela, 222;
intervenes in Franco-American
debt dispute, 260; part in Mexi-
can War, 268; Cuban proposal,
276; settles "Alabama Claims,"
299; Cuban intervention re-
jected, 319; World War decrees,
362; British votes in League of
Nations, 382
Ernst, Christian, 271
Erskine, Minister, 168
Evarts, William M., 304
Expatriation, Doctrine of, 269
Explorers, Americar, 194
Fenian agitation, 273
Fillmore, Millard, becomes Presi-
dent, 275; dealings with Kos-
suth, 278
Fish, Hamilton, 298
France, Franco-British War, 3;
first colonial loans, 6: Treaty
of Alliance, 9; work at York-
town, 28; forces sent to aid
America, 33; money aid, 40;
French Revolution, 50; war
with Europe, 53; dealings with
Monroe, 117; X. Y. Z. Papers,
121; second Treaty, 127; breaks
peace of Amiens, 155; Berlin
Decrees, 157, in Mexico, 219;
treaty settling revolutionary
claims, 255; France settles,
260; Cuban proposal, 276
Franklin, Benjamin, 7; letter to
Laurens, 38; opinion of France,
48; quoting Louis XVI, 82
Garfield, James A., becomes
President, 305
Genêt, Citizen, arrives in America,
95; correspondence with Jeffer-
son, 100; organizes sedition,
101; recall demanded, 104
Germany, trouble over Samoa,
308; World War, 356; War
Decrees, 366
Ghent, Treaty of, xv, 179
Grant, U. S., on Monroe Doctrine,
220; becomes President, 291;
settles "Alabama Claims," 295
Great Lakes, Anglo-American
agreement, 186
Hamilton, Alexander, quoted, xiv;
Harding's opinion of, XX;
Hartford Conference, 13; letter
seeking French aid, 15; at
Yorktown, 29; fiscal policy, 41;
clash with Jefferson on French
policy, 54; Pacificus letters, 67;
dealings with Genêt, 102;
attacked for Jay Treaty, 112;
Camillus letters, 115; recalled
to army, 122; Talleyrand's
opinion of, 127; Continentalist
Papers, 128; fights Burr's in-
trigue, 144; compared with
Madison, 165; inspired Monroe
Doctrine, 197; relations with
Monroe, 198
Harding, Warren G., quoted, xx;
Panama Canal, 330; becomes
President, 392
Harrison, Benjamin,
President, 307; Panama Canal,
Harrison, William Henry, be-
comes President, 262
Hawaii, early troubles, 275; under
Cleveland, 307
Hay, John, 323, 328, 335
Hay-Herron Treaty, 329
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, 328
Jackson, Andrew, young soldier,
21; presidential term, 255;
demands French debt pay-
ment, 258; given Harvard
degree, 260
Jackson, James Francis, 169
Jay, John, sent to London, 111;
Treaty, 112; opinion, 295
clash with
Jefferson, Thomas,
Hamilton on French policy,
55; on Franco-British neutral-
ity, 62; dealings with Genêt,
102; political faiths, 143; first
inaugural, 146; foreign policy
fails, 162; retires, 165; anti-
cipated Monroe Doctrine, 198
Johnson, Andrew, Fenian
troubles, 273; becomes Presi-
dent, 289
Jones, John Paul, 35
Kellogg, Frank B., 351
Kipling, Rudyard, opinion of
Roosevelt, 335
Knox, P. C., 336, 380
Kossuth, Louis, 277
Lafayette, 8; "Lafayette we are
here," 10; defense of Virginia,
27, 37; letter regarding French
Revolution, 51; branded traitor,
82; imprisoned, 84
Lansing, Robert, 237, 347, 367
League of Nations, xix; in relation
to Monroe Doctrine, 238; fore-
shadowed, 366; analysed, 379;
defeated, 391
Lenroot, Senator, quoted, 371
"Leopard" incident, 160
Lincoln,
Abraham, Mexican
troubles, 219; becomes Presi-
dent, 287; his Nationalism,
289
"Little Sarah" incident, IOI,
160
Lodge, Henry Cabot, quoted,
xiii; on Monroe Doctrine, 240;
opinion of Roosevelt, 324;
warns Wilson, 377; League
speech, 384
Louis XVI, guillotined, 53; atti-
tude toward America, 82
"Lusitania," 363
Madison, James, views on Franco-
British neutrality, 67; becomes
Secretary of State, 145; becomes
President, 165; plays France
and England against each other,
169; War of 1812 message,
172; anticipates Monroe Doc-
trine, 198
Marion, Francis, 21, 27
Maximilian, executed, 221
McKinley, William, on expatria-
tion, 274; becomes President,
313; pen, 321; Panama Canal,
328
McLemore Resolution, 365
Metternich, xiv
Mexico, Maximilian's empire, 218;
trouble under Tyler, 263; Mexi-
can War, 265; trouble under
Hayes, 304; under Taft, 338;
under Wilson, 342; World War
involvement, 367
Milan Decree, 157
Monroe, James, sent to Paris,
109; duplicity, 117; friend of
Jefferson, 145; negotiates at
London, 158; relations with
Hamilton, 193; promulgates
Monroe Doctrine, 206
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