 In his role, and due to England's ostensible propping up of former Ecuadorian president Juan José Flores as a monarch, Livingston was instructed to say that "the intervention or dictation, direct or indirect, of European Governments in the affairs of the Independent States of the American Hemisphere will never be viewed with indifference by the government of the United States.On the contrary, all the "moral" means, at least, within their power, shall upon every occasion be employed to discourage and arrest such interference.