Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-12-01

Keen my SpiulefS employer, 80 ne
locked over the map aud said: Aha.
have II solution. Here Is Santo Domingo.
! Will r'colquer IL aud again euslave
It's negroes" The French soldiers did
not care what they were fighting as
long ~ they were fighting something
So the flower Of the French army set
sail for this faron island. lie Clerc. the
great French general. the husband Of
NapoleonS sister. Pauline Bonaparte,
was In command.
What happened: Toussaint rOuver-
turc is treacherouSly betrayed and car
rlcd TO France u prisoner but his lieu
tenants of war continued his patriotic
work. These disciples of the Washing
ton of this southern island, aided by
the pest'lence and disease which
troops step by step until within Il few
months six -seyenths of all the unprln-
cipled French invaders were dead. The
veteran French soldiers. whose tread.
like the tramp of Roman legions.
struck the world with terror, were
UtoMNh hONu NllfifTt az AIulNhtg US NlAC
rpcmcd grain falls before the hiss of
the scythc What now happened! Ma
p0ieon. the great Napoleon. the mighty
couqucror Napoleon. who had his
dreams OF making the rich territory of
Louisiana the brightest star in his
in farof Santo Domingo can destroy
my legions. | cannot hold Louisiana in
case OF war. must sell right away"
once more the scene changes Eu-
rope was again in arms against the
tyrant. Napoleon must have money.
and have ii right away. Napoleon
cannot hold his American possessions
and still fight his European foes. Thus
when Robert Livingston comes to him
and says, First consul. will you sell
us for two millions of dollars the land
on the east side of the Mississippi, that
we may have entrance for our com
mcrce up the Ohio Napoleon an
swers. For SiJo0O.0o0 will sell you
all OF louisiana" Thus all of Indian
Territory. all of Kansas and Nebraska
hAHt A1hh hitN " sbAiAhS bhh shOhNhA0
aud the Dakotas aud most of Colorado
and Minnesota and all Of Washington
and Oregon states came to us as tie
indirect work of n deSpised negro.
Praise. II you will. the work of Rob
crt Livingston or II Jefferson. but to-
day let us not forget our debt to Tous.
saint fOuveriure. who was indirectly
the means of Americas expansion by
the Louisiana purchase Of 1903. DO not
from now on tell me that the negro
of the south or OF the north has no
claim 10 Americas citizenship. Tous-
saint rOuyerture has forever won for
the negro that token of the gratitude
Of our nation.
But. alas. now. with flushed cheek OF
humiliation and downcaSt eyes of
shame. we must recall our national
dealings with the poor. helpless. strug-
Cling republic of Mexico in reference
10 the Texan annexation of 1915 and
the Mexican cesSion of 1878. and the
more we study this sad epoch Of our
national history the more we feel that
our government not only acted unjust
~. but She acted dishonesty
Texan Annexation.
In the first place. To understand the
chief cause Of this geographical eXpan-
sion you must enter the United States
senate AT Washington aud stand for
II little while there amid the slavery
agitationS of the antehellum time of the
Il
its congressional forces ON the one
hand. aud the south WAS arraying its
congress .onal forces on the other hand,
Tie great center Of this forensic strug.
gle WAS in the United States senate.
We must have more men 10 represent
us In the senate cried the north.
Then. as speedily as possible. they
rushed the settlers west TO fill up the
praires beyond the Mississippi and
carve out new states TO send their
senators TO the national capital TO help
them In the slavery fight. I'VE must
have more men in the United States
senate TO help us In the struggle TO
pcrpetuate slavery cried the south.
But where We're they TO get the new
states from which to select the new
senators:
There was no unsettled land and no
possible new states south of the Ma.
son and Dixon line. So the south turn
ed us eyes toward Texas. part of the
Mexican republic. II practically said.
III the Mexican republic will not sell
Texas we will send he settlers of the
United States into IL. and we will get
up Il revolution there. aud then we will
annex Texas 10 the United States. and
out of Texas can he carved ten new
states" In other words the south
overran Texas with its people as the
north rushed Its settlers into Kansas
territory little later In order TO make
il an abolition state Then. after Texas
was admitted into the Union. the
United States government. iiguratively
speaking. AS highwayman put the
pistol 10 MeNicoS forehead and said
Surrender to me all OF California. all
OF Nevada. Hll OF Arizona and most of
New Mexico for "A paltry Sl5.O00.O00,
or | will blow your brains out and
uobllp mn Vnur whole fnuntrv az