Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-10
TO haul II down? Hold on to everything
you can get. America has outgrown
Americanism."
ARGUMENT FOR SLAVERY
STRONGER.

ehfAe VI MI. i1hA
summarizing the argument. he said; me
constitutional argument for slavery was
ten times as strong as the argument oi
the Senator from Connecticut. Inc slave
master said he owned men Tor thelr good
The Senator from Connecticut proposes
10 own nations for their good. lie set
forth his own constitutional doctrine,
which he desired TO oppose to that OF MT:
platt lie declared that the people OF
,bts conntrv had not deposited all SOW
ereigrty anywhere. and had authorized no
agent of theirs TO exercise all sovereignty,
unlimited and uncontrolled. lie continued:
'The power to conquer alien peoples and
hold them in subjugation is nowhere ex-
pressly granted.
REASONS AGAINST 1T.
''Tho power to conquer an alien people
and hold them in subjugation is nowhere
implied as necessary for the accomplish
ment OF the purpose declared by the con-
stitution. II is clearly shown to be one
that ought not TO be exercised by any
body-one that the trainers OF the Consti-
tuition thought ought not to be exercised
by anybody
Firstly because II Is immoral and
wicked in itself
Second because 1t is expressly denied
In the Declaration OF Independence the
great interpreter and expounder of the
meaning Of the Constitution, which owes
its origin to the same generation and
| largely to the same men.
Thirdly, ii is affirmed that 1t is i'm
moral and unfit to be exercised by any
body-in numerous instances by contem-
| porary State legislation and the contem-
porary writers and authorities on public
law. who expressed the opinion Of the
American people in that generation who
aI ia ronctffnfinu oc well the
men who framed it,"
In discussing how territory may be ac-
| quired constitutiOnally by the United
| States, Mr.. Hoar said:
| ut may also acquire adjoining or opt
| lying territory, dispose of il. make rules
| and regulations for It, for the purpose or
| national security and defence, as in the
| case Of Hawaii, although IL may not be
| expected that the territory so acquired
| held, and disposed of shall ever come INTO
| the Union as a State
| However, Immediately following this
| statement. MIR. Hoar set the Philippines
against Hawaii in this declarations:
| "Mr President, you are not now pro-
| posing to acquire or own property in the
| Philippines with dominion as a neces-
| sary incident. You are not to own a foot
| Of land there. You propose now TO ac-
quire dominion and legislative power and
| nOlllnk GlSt. w mere III tue ApllSlibbti'AA
is the grant of power to exercise sove-
| reignty where you have no property?'
HE CITED AUTHORITIES.
In support of his Interpretation Of the
| Constitution, Mr. Hoar cited numerous
authorities. among them Charles Sumner,
| Mr.. Justice Matthews, and Mr.. Justice
| Brewer He quoted the statement OF
Louis Napoleon, made in 1854, that the
time OF conquest is past never to return
for 1t is not by extending the boundaries
Of its territory that nation can hence
forth be honored and powerful, but by
placing itself at the head of generous
ideas and spreading everywhere the
| empire of right and Justice The speaker
then added Napoleon forgot what he
! said when he grew a little stronger. lie
saw his opportunity in Mexico as our
friends think they see ours in the Philip
pines. But the sure and terrible feet OF
Destiny overlook him in the midst OF
his pride and power.
N our commissioners came back from
l Paris. bringing with them the cast OF
clothing of this pinchbeck Napoleon, and
ask us, who have seen his fate, TO dis
card for them the spotless robes in which
our fathers clothed the beautiful genius
Of America.
CRIMINAL AGGRESSION.
| a year ago last lftttAibSA NAAN A'''
dent of the United States sent message
TO Congress. In that message he said:
sneak not OF fOrcible annexation, because
! that is not TO be thought Of and under
our code Of morality that would be criml'
nal aggression
president Mckinley, when he spoke
was not thinking even OF honor or ol
power, inspiring and alluring as are honor
and power. He placed himself ana placed
the American people on the stern endu
ring. and perpetual rock of righteousness
declaring that forcible annexation is no
to be thought of under our code ol
morality.
"Who shall haul him down? Who shal
haul down the code? Who shall hau
down the PRESIDENT
Mr.. Hoar dwelt with emphasis upoi
the large increase in national eXpendl
ture which the policy of expansion adVo
Gated by Mr.. Platt would entail placlni
the amount at 100000 annually. III
argued that the adoption OF MT PlatV
doctrine would reduce wages, increas'
taxation place an armed soldier on tn
back of the workingman and by the ac
of the government every Americana dig
nitv would be dishonOred and his man
| hood discrowned.
In conclusion, Mr.. Hoar said he coul'
not agree that the lesson OF our mrs
| hundred years is that the Declaration
independence and the Constitution are
failure. and that America is to begin tn
twentieth century where Spain began IN
sixteenth.
"The Monroe doctrine is gone. Ever!
European nation, every European alliance
has the right to acquire dominion in thi
hemisphere when We acquire 1t III th'
other"
| cpAcM on FOLLY
"NIr. President. this spasm of folly and
delusion in my judgment, will surely pass
by. Whether il pass by or not, l thanN
God that l have done my duty, and nave
adhered to the great doctrines OF right,
eousness and freedom which l learned
from my fathers and in whose service my
life has been spent
When Mr.. Hoar had concluded Mr. Plat
addressed the Senate. He said: Il can
not ask the indulgence of the Senate al
this time to reply extemporaneously L
the carefully prepared argument or the
Senator from Massachusetts. / can ohiS
say that | have listened to II with grea
attention and interest The Senator is
master of language and an adept AT th'
use of sarcasm. He has succeeded IN con
juring. up a spectre, which is really ohN
! spectre. He has spent large portioi
of his argument in erecting a man o
J straw, and the remainder of his argumen
In demolishing that man of straw. III
has not answered the argument which
had the honor to make. but has misrepre
sented what / said"
I.,I,AIMED TO BE MISREPRESENTED
Mr. Platt maintained that Mr.. Hoar ha'
submitted his contention that this coun