The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-03-19
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nor can one avoid following the example OF
all powerful nations that have existed for
thousands Of years in the matter OF acquiring
adjacent territory that Is attractive 10 our
people on any account whatever.
THE ISLANDS, RENARKABLE RESOURCES.
81. Domingo has history Of great inter-
est TO those who comprehend the value Of
immense uudeveloped resources Of territory
to people as full Of enterprise and energy
as ours. For more than two centuries that
island was a mine OF wealth TO Spain, whose
subjects used up not only all the original In
hAbhsuts of the Island and their descendants
In working II, but all the Inhabitants Of the
adjacent islands and the adjacent main
land they could conquer and enslave to the
end Of laboring for them there. Hlspaniola
and Cuba wero thus made the graveyards OF
all the West Indies aud adjacent territories,
to the end OF minlstering to Spanish cupid
ity. Negroes eventually supplied the place
Of the natives thus wasted. There Is no
telling the aggregate amount Of wealth
drawn by Spain from Hlspaniola (st. Do
mingo) In the course Of her possession OF
the island. Yet not milllonth part OF Il
did she thus abstract. The balance remains
locked up In tho mountain recesses and sur
rounded by other obstacles, not likely to be
overcome by a people less advanced than
the people Of the United States. In miner.
ais, drugs, valuable woods, &C., Hlspaniola
Ia one Of the richest territories In the world,
even yet. In agricultural rcsources-pro-
ductiyeness-no territory of similar extent
surpasses it.
WHY At PRESENT rSPRoDrcTfvE.
Since Spain lost the Island Of course it has
produced for the benefit Of the outside world
almost absolutely nothing; its inhabitants
being for the most part sayages scarcely re-
| moved from the barbarlsm Of Africa. They
are as far behind the colored race Of the
United States at this time as our forefathers
Of the middle ages were behind the whites of
| America In the latter half OF the nineteenth
century. The colored race with US have had
the advantage Of attrition against the most
free and enterprising whites Of modern times,
and have consequently advanced faster than
any other people ever did, as q race, in the
same time; for no other race or class are
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| done. Guaranteeing the Europeans in ST..
Domingo ten TO one, and those Europeans
being Of the class least prone to and capable
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p,ona,'oh OIL any surplus energy, enterprise
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: THE DRIFT or AMERICAN AssRxArios-rEi
E hroRAL ACCUSATION
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