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April 14, 187114 de abril de 1871 · Bellows Falls, Vt. · Grant Annexation Debates & Bondholder PoliticsDebates de Anexión de Grant y Política de Bonistas

Bellows Falls times

SourceFuente: Bellows Falls times · Bellows Falls, Vt. · April 14, 187114 de abril de 1871
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84022549/1871-04-14/ed-1/?sp=2

In contextEn contexto

Grant Annexation Debates & Bondholder PoliticsDebates de Anexión de Grant y Política de Bonistas · 1865–1905

President Ulysses S. Grant championed a treaty to annex Santo Domingo (1869–1870), sparking a historic Senate battle led by Charles Sumner. Later coverage tracked President Ulises Heureaux (Lilís) and crushing European bond debt.El presidente Ulysses S. Grant promovió un tratado para anexar Santo Domingo (1869–1870), provocando una histórica batalla en el Senado con Charles Sumner. Informes posteriores siguieron al presidente Ulises Heureaux (Lilís) y la deuda externa.

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More on The Annexation DebateMás sobre El debate de la anexión

SummaryResumen

The newspaper reported that a Senator argued the annexation of Santo Domingo would provoke the jealousy and fear of other American republics, which view the United States without special affection due to past difficulties with Paraguay, Cuba, Peru, and Brazil. Furthermore, the Senator stated that the people of Santo Domingo are not homogeneous with America, making the territory a costly burden, and asserted that the Monroe Doctrine does not justify the United States seizing adjoining lands.

El diario dio cuenta de la intervención de un senador quien sostuvo que la anexión de Santo Domingo concitaría los recelos y el temor de las demás repúblicas americanas, las cuales miraban a los Estados Unidos sin particular simpatía a raíz de pasados diferendos con Paraguay, Cuba, Perú y Brasil. Agregó además que la población de Santo Domingo no guardaba afinidad ni homogeneidad con el pueblo estadounidense, constituyendo el territorio una carga onerosa, y afirmó que la doctrina Monroe jamás justificaba la apropiación de territorios circunvecinos por parte de los Estados Unidos.

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The full text of this article is still being prepared. Until it is ready, this page carries a summary, the passage found on the page, and the link to the original, which is always one click away.El texto completo de este artículo aún se está preparando. Hasta que esté listo, esta página lleva un resumen, el pasaje encontrado en la página y el enlace al original, que siempre está a un clic.

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The passage where this article was found, copied from the newspaper page itself, reading errors and all. This is exactly what the summary above is based on.El pasaje donde se encontró este artículo, copiado de la propia página del periódico, con sus errores de lectura y todo. Esto es exactamente aquello en lo que se basa el resumen de arriba.

difficulty with Paraguy for ten years or

more; our attitude toward Cuba; the

trouble with Peru in 1860 a recent un

pleasantness with Brazil in regard to the

passage of the gunboat Wasp, up the

Paraguy to relieve Minister Washburn,

were recited to show that there was no

special love for this government among

those nations. The annexation of Santo

Domingo, whether of spontaneous origin

or nursed by the military, naval and

financial power of the United States,

cannot fail to excite the jealousy and

fear of all the American republics. In

stead of this, the American Republic

should be the protector, the counselor

and guide of all her sister republics and

not a ravenous beast of prey.

A COSTLY ELEPHANT.

Mr. Morrill then proceeds to show that

the people of San Domingo are not ho

mogeneous with America, and that it

would be a costly elephant on our hands.

The most desirable annexation is north

ward. THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

The St Thomas matter was referred

to and the Monroe doctrine explained by

the Senator at considerable length. He

declared that the doctrine was not that

we were to seize all the land adjoining us

nor was it by any means susceptible of

the selfish interpretation that European

vultures were to be driven away in order

that the American eagle might swoop

down and clutch the prey. Such had

not been the well settled policy of thj

nation until it remained for our late Sec

retary of State, always grand in his con

ceptions, even when wrong, first to grasp

the north pole, and then to leap back al

most to the equator, or to alternate be

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Bellows Falls times. (1871). Bellows Falls, Vt., 1871-04-14. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84022549/1871-04-14/ed-1/?sp=2

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