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T1 Mexican exiles and the Monroe Doctrine, New York and the borderlands, 1865
A1 Van Hoy, Teresa
K1 Exiles
K1 Patriotic clubs
K1 French intervention
K1 Monroe Doctrine
K1 Expansionism
K1 Borderlands
K1 Exiliados
K1 Juntas patrióticas
K1 Intervención francesa
K1 Doctrina Monroe
K1 Expansionismo
K1 Frontera
K1 Arte
K1 Art
K1 Historia
K1 History
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Sociología
K1 Sociology
AB The meeting of the “Mexican Patriot Club” in the Cooper Institute in New York City on July 19, 1865 gave Mexican exiles a powerful forum from which to exalt the ideal of Republicanism in the Americas, and to hail Mexicans as heroic long-term defenders of that ideal. These exiles sought to shift public sentiment and government policy in the United States in a crucial period mid-1865 when the Mexican Republic led by President Benito Juárez faced the greatest threat from its antagonists and a new threat from its sympathizers. Theirs was a delicate public relations task. They needed to rally support for Mexico’s Republic sufficient both to undermine sympathy for Mexico’s Empire and loosen U.S. neutrality enforcement, yet not encourage the American expansionists then mobilizing to invade Mexico under pretext of rescuing the Republic from the troops of Napoleon III. The exiles’ tactic in this meeting was to rally Americans behind the Monroe Doctrine as a principle of pan-American solidarity —a call to conscience rather than a call-to-arms.
SN 1889-5611
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/24842
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/24842
LA spa
DS MINDS@UW
RD 25-abr-2024