The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-10-30
CONSTITUTIONAL Law
and EXPANSION POLICY


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and Institutions Of the eoantr5- Is VA
bot natural that his yiew gf tie E-essers
Constitution sh0sid deny 70 thu epFsra
nS.snf the ToweT 10 bold and goraru tsrrI
tory a. suh!-zr dependessc;es ez e9son.1.
The treaty with FEznee- b. vbich Lon
Isisna Was acquired. a. : sveIl knowl
/ provided for TIE admission of that eoEu
Try as states into the union. ard ~ Z
tbs regulations for its asqujsftisa yse1
PENDING Mr. Jefferson sabgniste6. on Au-
ust ~ 1873, TO Lew LGacoln. the aztoE
ne, general of the United Starss-as Il
also did to Mr. 4ladiSon-tha ioIloysIu.
sketch OF an amendment 10 tie Conss5tll
ton which he believed the purchase O.
Louisiana required:
Louisiana as ceded by France i us.l,
part OF the United States: is waite in
habirsnts shall be citizens and stand. I.
To their rights and obligation. On III.
same footing with other citizens OF Tbs
United States in analogous situations. etc
FLORIDA. also. whensoerer 1t may d,
rishtfully obtained. shall b,zcome a par
Of the United States; its whole inhabi
tants shall thereupon BE- citizens and shall
stand. as to their rights and obligations
on the same footing with other citizens
of the United States in analogous stu
atoms" g fuckers jefferson. 1879 4
Jeferson's Writings. J02-3.t
James Madison. the Grtifez nsa-imgs OF
the Constitution, in the year 1919, said
of the second clause of the third section
of the fourth article of the Constitution,
relating to the power of congress over
territories
1T cannot be well extended beyond !
power over the territory as property. and
the power TO make provisions really need
full or necessary FOR the government of
settlers until ripe for admission into the
union" writings. Vol. III. Q. 1872
In Number Fourteen of the FederaIist
he wrote:
'.The object of the Federal Constitu-
ton IS to secure the union of the thirteen
primitive states, which we know to be
practicable, and to add to them such
other states as may rise in their own
bosoms or in their neighborhood. which
we cannot doubt will be practicable"
During Mr.. Monroe's administration.
in 1919. the Colonization Society request
ed the government TO purchase territory
on the west coast Of Africa. TO which
slaves taken under the acts which hal
been lately passed to suppress piracy and
the slave trade might be sent The object
of the society, according 70 John Quincy
was Ito establish a colony in
Africa where all the free blacks and peo-
Ide Of color of the United States may ae
sent and settled" Mr.. Monroe on this
''disclaimed the exercise of the
colonizing power" as not within the con
stitutional powers of the government.
John Quincy Adams, as secretary of
state. advised against the plan as unau-
thorized by the Constitution. de con
refers in his Diary" 10
the subject, as follows:
Although the plan obviously imports
the migrating of colonial establishment
ON the Constitution of the United States.
and thereby an accession of power 10 the
government transcending all its
other powers. and although this tremen-
ious machinery would be introduced I'M
Ter an ostensible purpose comparatively
20 trivial and in a captivating form which
night bring it in unperceived do not ne
thot If il the s
my one member OF the society; for il
would only be the motive of a man whose
nagnificence of design and depravity of
would both go beyond my opin-
on of any man belonging to the institu-
ion. At the Office the commit
ee from the society-General John Ma
on, Walter Jones and Francis s. Key
.ame and renewed the subject. Jones
lgreed that the late Slave Trade act con-
aimed clear authority to settle colony
n Africa. and that the purchase of Lou
siana and the settlement at the mouth IL
he Columbia river placed beyond all CUES
ion the right of acquiring territory IS
.xisting in the government of the United
States. | treated them with all possible |
,ivility. but gave them distinctly to I'M
ierstand that the late Slave Trade act
lad no reference To the settlement of a |
olony, and that the acquisition of Lou
siana and the establishment at the mouth |
# the Columbia river, beng in territory |
oHti9nous and continuous NTH our ofra. |
oaid by no means icarraHf the purchase |
u countries beyond the seas or the es-
Enlistment of q colonial system Of qor-
rnmeas subordinate to and dependent |
pon that of the United States. To derive |
'owers competent TO do this from the /
'lave Trade act was an Indian coSmogo- |
"; it was mounting The world upon AZ
lephant and the elephant upon a tortoise.
nth nothing for the tortoise TO stand |
pom. tMemoires of John Quincy Adj
ms. Vol. ~. DIP. 2922 81 see also Sehan-
sr Hist. of Z. g, Vol. Ill. PIP. 142 IS
In 1872 Mr.. Adams, in highly inter-
sting conversation with Mr.. Canning,
hen prime minister of England, severely
enounced the European system of eolo-
iai government. concluding his censure
nth the remark that The whole system
I modern colonization was an abuse of |
oyernment and it was time that it should
ONE to an end" tMemoires of John
quincy Adams. Vol. VI. p. lo4.l
Many years later. when member Of
be house of representatives he said:
The real constitutional inecmpeteney |