The aegis & intelligencer., 1900-04-20

much of the same ground he ana
Others have covered heretofore in the
pending discussion. Adverting to the
authority to be found in tire Declara-
ton of Independence for expansion,
Mr.. Hoar declared
There is expansion enough in it,
but it is the expansion Of freedom
and not of despotism; of life, not OF
death. Never was such growth in all
human history as that from the seed
Thomas Jefferson planted. 1t has
covered the continent. 1t is on both
the seas. 1t has saved South Ameri-
ca. 1t is revolutionizing Europe. 1t
is the expansion Of freedom.
ut differs from your tinsel, pinch
beck, pewter expansion as the growth
of n healthy youth into strong man
differs from the expansion OF an
anaconda when he swallows his vic
tim. Ours is tue expansion CT
Thomas Jefferson; yours is the ex-
pansion of Aaron Burr. 1t is de-
stined to as short life and to a like
fate.
"In every accession of territory to
this country ever made we recognized
fully the doctrine of the consent OF
the governed and the doctrine THAI
territory so acquired must be held to
be made into States.
"You have tried governing men OF
other races than your own at home
for 100 years. You have dealt with
the Indian, you have dealt with the
negro, close at hand, knowing all
about them. Isuppose you feel en-
couraged by your success. There are
1O, ,OOO, 600 more 1000 miles away, Of
whom you know nothing. You go
forth jauntily and boastingly, as
Louis Napoleon went to meet his
doom at Sedan.
"Uuder municipal law you cannot
buy horse of which the seller is dis
possessed, you cannot buy u foot of
land of which he is disseized. You
cannot purchase lawsuit. Unler
international law you cannot buy a
people from q power that has no ac-
tual dominion over them.
You cannot buy the liberties of a
people from a dispossessed tyrant,
liberties they have bravely won for
themselves in arms. You cannot buy
sovereignty like merchandise and
men like sheep.
81 shall show beyond all question
or cavil, from the evidence of cur own
commanders, that this was people.
They were a people who had taken
arms for liberty. They had achieved
liberty. They had taken arms to es-
tablsh a republic. They had es-
tablished a republic first repub-
lie of the Orient.
1.-The Declaration of Independence
is not so much declaration of rights
as a declaration of duties. There is
one question l should like to put to
the Republican ma jority in the Sen
ate and to the Republican party in
the country: Is this doctrine true or
is it false?
Thomas Jefferson declared it, this
precise doctrine now at stake here.
John Quincy Adams reaffirmed it
again and again. Abraham Lincoln
said he was willing to be assassinated
for it. Charles Sumner was almost
assassinated for it in his place n the
Senate Chamber. If il be true, the
country is diehonored when we
depart from it.
II believe that if the gloss put upon
that great declaration by the Senator
of Connecticut had been uttered in
171G it would have been received with
burst of derisive laughter in hell,
and Satan him self would have led the
chorus.
"There are 1900 islands in the
Philippine group. They have a pop
ulation variously estimated at from
8, 100000 to 100000. Among them
are the people of the Island of Luzon,
numbering 3,500,00O and the people
of the Visayan islands, numbering
2, 500, 900 more. They are a Christian
and civilized people. They wrested
their independence from Spain and
established republic.
MANY advocates of Imperialism
who have investigated the matter
have declared their confidence in
Aguinaldo's integrity. MIR. Schur-
man, president of the commission,
told his students at Cornell when he
got home that Aguinaldo was an
honest and a patriotic man. Our
consuls bear this testimony.
81 have studied as well as 1 could
the character and career OF Aguinaldo.
l do not compare him with Washing
ton. To Americans there is one
character too lofty, one rame too
sacred, for parallel or comparison.
But l believe he is to take a high
rank hereafter among the men who
have lived and died for liberty. He
deserves to be remem bered with the
small band who have given life and
everything dearer than life to their
country in a losing cause.
''He shall live with Kossuth, with
Dom Paul, with Joubert, with EN-
met, with Egmont and Horn, with
Nathan Hale, with Warren, with all
the great martyrs of history whose
blood hath been the seed of the |
church of liberty.
Mr.. Hoar declared the following
'acts to stand clear and undisputed: |
First-That these people were aim
ng at independence from the begin.
ming.
Second-That they achieved indie.
oendence.
Third-That our commanders, naval |
md military, our Secretary OF War,
our Administration at home, knew
I'll the time that they were aiming,
triving, at independence.
Fourth-That we encouraged them
~ every form of practical assurance.
In maintaining his position with !
eference to the independence Of the
''ilipinos Mr.. Hoar quoted in full a
tast amount of documentary evidence
letters and reports of
United States officials in the islands.
Among these were reports from Ad-
niral Dewey, General Anderson, Gen