27 The obligations and duties which one nation contracts always draw after them reciprocal duties.
The Monroe Doctrine, now universally recognized as il principle of the United States Government, has imposed upon this nation a multitude of obligations which continually occasion it difficulties and dangers. The republics of Central America llave derived, and still derive, great benefit from this doctrine. Their independence, like the independence of Mexico, could not have been maintained without the powerful help of the United States. Our national life, however precarious or anarchical it may have been, would have been very quickly snuffed out if the United States had left us exposed to our own solitary efforts to maintain existence.
Spain, even in its fallen state, England, France or Germany, would have conquered us, if those wise and prophetic words of Monroe, inspired by the sincere and profound sentiment of a great nation, had not been elevated to the category of a fundamental law of the New World.
Nicaragua was the first to benefit by this doctrine.
The reincorporation of the Mosquito Land was arranged and accomplished through negotiations with England, carried on by the great Republic; and, even now, under the Government which resulted from the Revolution of Bluefields, the economic liberty of the Republic is sought to be achieved through the instrumentality of the Mixed Commission, a work which imposes new duties upon the United States, and which must, undoubtedly, produce new rights under the law of compensation.