The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-10-31
CONSTITUTIONAL LlN
and EXPANSION POLICY
Confined froa Third rase

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Of rosstsfsss0ssI Hkerty. arAsf.c- II -.
cosozy or sAs usofher eDsatry- IL i but
half the mischief ot tie colonial syste-
/ that IL obstruets the groKtir - freedom
IL the colony. Ii fay6rs tie erowth OF az
biuary power in the mother eoanrrs
/ II may be laid down as 4 moral OF the
/ long and varied struggle which was
brought to a crisis on this spot Le1inr-
ton on the 13st of April. I175. fhGf c
colonial government saH .e,fher b crsT-
ciscd on principles Of corstitufioral ES-
erty acitkouf oross iacossistsscV. nor sub
sitfed TO by free people possessing
Hembers oHG re.osrces rekjch egtkori-e
remittance (Orations and Speeches,
Vol. l.. p. 500
And in another philosophical discourse
he writes:
The rule of distant colonies is ar best
an anomaly in free state. II il is 8
military despotism it is so by confession.
and even when founded on charters
which assume the character OF constitu-
tons. when we consider the necessary 70
lations of the colonial authorities to the
governments on which they depend and TO
which they are responsible on the one
hand. and TO the people over whom they
are placed on the other hand. It is obvi-
Gus that the leaning, if not resisted. must
be to prerogative rather than to right"
Idem.. Vol. H., p. 1872
William II. Stewards views on this sub
ject were precisely those announced by
Chief Justice fancy in the bred Scott
case. On July &c. 1850, he said in the
senate:
1T is a remarkable feature of the
Constitution that its trainers never con-
templated colonies or provinces or terri
tories at all. On the other hand they con-
templated states only: nothing less than
states perfect states: equal states: as
they are called here, sovereign states.
There was indeed domain belonging 70
the United States at the time the Con-
stitution was adopted which. for want
only of population. was set off tempo
rarily as a territory-the Northwestern
Territory. But that was only temper
airy ARRANGEMENT The arrangement itself
provided for the Subdivision of the tQrri-
tory and its organization into five new
states the moMent that il should be peo-
pied. phere is reason. there is sound
political wisdom in this provision of the
Constitution excluding colonies, which
always tend to corrupt and enfeeble and
break down the parent state
Works, Vol. l.. p. 1927
In the same year in the senate he again
declared:
'All colonies, especially military colo
MES. are homogeneous with our political
system, and they are equally open to cor
ruption and exposed TO oppression. They
are therefore. not more unfortunate in
their own proper condition than fruitful
Of dangers to the parent democracy
Works. Vol. L., p. 3d.
On another occasion he asserted:
Congress may admit new states.
The organization of a territory is
lncillary or preliminary; it is the in
,hoate. the Initiative act of admission
In speech in the senate in 1851 on
he public domain he declared
I'VE have only a temporary jurisdic
both of which are of brief duration
md comparatively valIelesS. The re-
rersion of both belongs TO the states and
s infinitely more important TO them. 1t |
s not until that reversion has taken
place that the domain really begins to
'ontribute to the wealth and strength of
he whole republic" Works. Vol. l., /
}. 1851
In July. 1854, he said
by the Constitution of the United /
States there are no subjects.
By the Constitution of the United States
here are no permanent provinces or de-
tendencies. This union is constituted by
states, and all of them stand upon the
same level of political right. This is the
equality of the states in the union
There was an unoccupied domain which
he several states surrendered TO the fed
raj authorities to the end that il might
,e settled, colenized, and divided in,o
'ther states 10 be organized and become
MEMBERS of the union on an equal foot
ne with the original states When adj
iitions TO this domain were made from
oreign countries the same principles
eemed TO be the only ones upon which
he government could be extended over
hem, and so with some qualifications,
on the present occasion,
hey became universal in their applic.i-
ion Works. Vol ". PIP. 16.-Sl
At other times be declared:
The expansion of this empire Of free
Shite men is to be conducted through the
'rocess of admitting new states, not 9th
rwise." (voL ~. p. 6o3.l
The Constitution of the United Stats
onfers no power upon congress to de-
rive men Of their natural rights and in
lienahle liberty" tyol l.. p. f04.l
He called the territorial governments
the nurseries of new states" and char
cterised the proposition to maintain =
'ermanent territorial government over