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Monroe, contained in his letter to him dated Monti- cello, October 24th, 1823. THE INTER-OCEANIC CANAL. 81 4. He favored the acquisition of Cuba by the United States. On the 3d of June, 1823, he wrote to President Monroe in reference to that island, saying, "Certainly her addition to our confederacy is ex- actly what is wanting to round our power as a nation to the point of its utmost interest. " He afterward wrote to the same person that the " annexation of Cuba would fill up the measure of ou...r political well- being. " The immediate result of Mr. Monroe's consulta- tions with Mr. Jefferson was the promulgation of the Monroe doctrine, which terminated an inglorious epoch of the history of the country. Mr. Wharton, in his introduction to the "American State Trials, " refers with just pride to the Monroe declaration in the following terms : "At last the United States, which fifty years ago could hardly keep its central territory from being carried away under its very eyes, announced to- Europe that it would consider any foreign interfer- ence in the affairs of the American continent as a cause of war ; and Europe listened and acquiesced.
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