Excerpt from British Aggressions in Venezuela, or the Monroe Doctrine on Trial Such a controversy, involving as it does principles so vital to autonomous government on this continent, can hardly fail to deeply interest the American people. Moreover, since the contention has assumed a phase in open conflict with American public law, and with an international status in South America for the maintenance of which the United States stand solemnly pledged, it has ceased to be a matter of mere local concern, and has already become a grave international question. It is worth while then, in order to a clear conception of its merits and possible consequences, to briefly examine some of the more salient points in its origin and history. In undertaking this task, I am not conscious of any mo tives other than such as ought to actuate an impartial friend of both parties; but it would be quite impossible to preserve this atti tude without permitting the facts in case their full force of simple statement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.