Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-13
THE SAN DOMINGO QUESTION.

THE SAN DOMINGO QUESTION.
Speech ef Senator morrill, Of We,
mont, Delivered In the Unite
states senate. April Z, 1871.
We have received full report of tn
able speech delivered in the United State
Senate, on Friday, on the Santo De-
mingo question by Senator Morrill, q
Vermont. 1t would make twenty column
in our paper. We are obliged to condons
it, giving only the most salient points.
In opening his remarks Senator Morril
accorded to the President the credit o
being actuated by the purest of motive
in whatever he had done to promote tn,
swift accomplish ment of the annexation
OF San Domingo to this country. He al
iuded to the recent report of the Commits
sioners, and declared that it was not to b.
considered as any better authority thar
the writings of other gentlemen who had
been longer in the island. Cautious &C.
ton was needed upon the subject, for q
treaty or joint resolution of annexation
once made and adopted must be final and
lrrevocable, and whatever the train OF
evils there is no remedy. Let this West
| India stream of annexation but once pour
Its foul current into the history of the
United States, and it's polluted track will
be visible for all coming time, or so long
as the Union shall be preserved from the
great gulf below.
A BULLY AMONG REPUBLICS.
Our reputation among sister Republics
in America the Senator did not consider
wholly unblemished, and it was not like
ly to grow brighter from Santo Domingo
complications. Our experience with Next
co when Texas became a part of this
Union the Greytown affair in 1859; the
career OF Walker, the fiilibuster our diff
Guilty with Paraguay for ten years or
more our attitude toward Cuba; the
trouble with Peru in 1860 recent uu.
pleasantness with Brazil in regard to the
passage OF the gunbost Wasp up the Par
sguay to relieve Minister Washburn,
were related to show that there was no
special love for this government among
those nations. The annexation of Santo
domingo, whether of spontaneous origin |
or nursed by the military, naval and |
power of the United States, cam
not fail to excite the jealousy and fear of
all the American Republics. Instead of
this, the American Republic should be |
the protector, the counselor and guide of |
all her sister Republics, and not raven
ous beast of prey.
ARE OUR PEOPLE HOMOGENEOUS.
As another objection to the annexation
If Santo Domingo at present, Senator
Morrill, suggested the query whether our
people are now homogeneous enough to
ecurs the safety of the Republic. To say
nothing of our lately acquired Siberia,
commonly called Alaska, it mnst be con-
,eded that Arizona, New Mexico, Utah.
md that portion of Texas bordering upon
Mexico, are yet not only essentially I'M
American. but they have no everwhelm-
ng attachment to our form of govern
nent nor to the Anelo-Saxon race If theI
treng arm of the United States should
t any time become weak, it would re- s
Give no sucsor from these localities THE {
acquisitions of manifest des- :
my but their population would at any i
me, most likely, flock to the banner of e
ny cooked hat revolutionist. 6
1t is also to be spprehended that the s
tie masters of the emanbipated race in I
he Southern States will mako fow saori- a
oes for the enlightenment of that race o
: do anything which will elevate the c
'lored people above dependence. In view S
these facts the risks of the future G
light not to be multiplied.
A COSTLY ELEPHANT. C
The Senator continued with an argu- i,
ent that instead of the Bay of Savanna 2
ing needed as harbor for the protec- n
IN of our commerce, it would be a costly ~
sphant on our hands. 1t was almost en- 70
ely outside the ordinary routes of COM Of
7roo. or
The fact that the Tennessee, sent out Ia
a national mission, with five hundred IT
IN and nine alert newspaper reporters off
board, was as much lost to the world GA
: the long period of thirty-three days as or
ough she had been navigating in the m
en- Polar sea, exhibits in the strongest of
hit the absence of trade and ships in W
Q route to Savanna, and also its useless bs
moteness as harbor for Us or any other st
ton. The bay, too shallow for ships 10
en- of the second class, like the Tennas. ac
!, to approach within three miles of the an
ores, and proverbially unhealthy, offers on
protection whatever to American ship tw
,g interests If a naval station is need VIC
in the West Indies, it is much more so oo
the Mediterranean. To reach SANTANA. ~,
IN the trade which now goes nearest Is.
Ist sail two hundred and forty miles 9OI
of the way to reach this out of the no,
y station, and then sail back again two 17S
ndred and forty miles-making in all nrc
oyage of four hundred and eighty ejo
es-to no purpose, for when SANTANA the
bus reached the only business is, and mi
nld be, to get away, as the bay is as for
PITY as that part of the Lake Gennesa- 7
g, where Simon Peter and his partners, fro
hes and John, toiled all the night ow
ing nothing. nor
was not needed Tor national defence, wit
we have nothing more to defend, and bef
plea that we want the harbor of das
,ana for any purpose is only link in mir
eVi!enoe eha1 iiay.'' not oah.o 10 at (
CO. Is really ooVeted ana sought, tor of I
harbors of Hayti only could furnish I
real accommodation, being far better wer
less remote. Ia support of the argu- exp
It against annexation on the ground of ex n
of the climate, the Sen. 40
quoted Commander Silfridge, that exn
of Hayti "would be found from
elephant, costing both in money and Don
s. San
be United States has already land abo,
lgh, and the people of Dominica are bv
the class or kind to become a part of was
They are confessedly in anoe
lowest state of poverty, and must re- gold
, SO forever, because they will not
Z. They are grossly ignorant; and coc'
remain SO, because they have no as.
ton to be otherwise, have attended TT
shoots themselves, nor will they pro- falla
any for their children. They are a trop
gn, incompatible race, and never can grea
me homogeneous, in manners or GUS publ