Year: 1869

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The United States and Hybrid Annexation.


few weeks since q number of jealous
patriots in and out of Congress discovered a
nice job in st. Domingo wild lands, mining
grants, Samana bay speculations and .
tribe Of few millions in a public debt
worth one or two cents on the dollar,
and straightway protectorate scheme was
rushed into Congress in the hope that the
American eagle would spread It's wings and
carry it into state Of hopeful existence To
the infinite disgust of the jobbers the House
could not see it In that light, and the protec-
torate scheme failed almost as suddenly as it
was born. The failure was ascribed to the
want of skilful management on the part of the
nurses, and SO the bantling was dressed up in
a new suit to try again if Congress would not
adopt it. A Haytien red bandanna kerchief
was wound round its crispy locks, Cuba
liberty cap was placed upon its head, bogus
Mexican rattle was put in it's little dst, and it
was then wrapped in the striped mantle Of
American progress and presented gingerly to
the conscript fathers in the shape Of joint
resolution that anybody who wanted to come
into the Union had only to knock at the door,
and it should be opened unto him.


But the trick did not succeed. The con-
script fathers were in no mood to adopt new
bantlings, particularly Of the hybrid breed.
They had recently been trying to bring in a
large black family as members of the body
polite, to which the Northern mind exhibited
unmistakable signs of reluctance. The big
dose of Southern niggers was yet to be
swallowed in the shape of consti-
tutional amendment, and it was thought
best to see how that would affect the
public stomach, if it could be digested
before proceeding to other measures of
hybridation. So the joint resolution was
laid under the table to await the effect Of
our own colored experiment and to see if the
body polite could assimilate the large influx
of black blood


This is at it should be. We have no time
now, with so large debt to provide for and
an immense mass of corruption to purge from
the government, to foster petty jobs in hybrid
annexation schemes for the benefit of few
sharp spectators. st. Domingo, Hayti, Cuba,
Mexico and Central America are all going
through natural process of ripening and rot
ting, and in due time will come legitimately
within the pale of our control. The blood
thirsty blacks who have converted Hayti into
second Dahomey the sparse, mixed popula-
ton that exists in the Dominican republic and
claim the right to sell the malarious and unin-
habitable shores of Samana, and all the other
mixed and mutinous agglomerations south of
us digniied with the name of nationalities,
are eating out rapidly the remnants of the
old Latin civilization in their midst and pre-
pairing the way for the new era of steam and
electricity in the lands they now convert into
deserts. The only point worthy the present
attention of the government is Panama and
the Isthmus of Darien, where our rapidly
increasing commerce demands immediate and
permanent safety. II we can save Cuba from
the fate Of st. Domingo, Hayti and Mexico Il
should be done; but the country at large is In
no mood now for further hybrid annexation.