The Opelousas courier

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j years ago, tak, measures for appropria.

ting and utilizing the insular waif on

which she has at length laid an initiatory

grasp. As they well know, whatever

they might say in the reticent language

of diplomacy, it has been simply a broad

mdckery to reckognize either the so-call

s edlDominican lepublic or the so-called

I lHaytien republic, as having any decent

claim to take rbnk among civilized gov

ernments aud; nationalities. For more

than half a century, the whole island has

i been the theatre of eontendinfechieftains

and factions who have demonstrated

their utter inability to keep out of civil

warfare, or to ndnct it with decisive

vigor, while th y have shown the highest

aptitudes for othering.nd eradicating

whatever rndimientesand mark of civili

zation were previously present. Had a

sitiilar outlyin' territory presented to

En )aad, Fran or Rusia the invitation

a the tempta hlon which the geograph

ica poition, t political and social con

di tou and the ;general circumstances of

this island have offered to the United

States, it woul4 long since have been in

the firm pMseesion of the power thus ini

vised sad temjro d. Then how account

for the abstinence of the Unite4 States?

The history of her domestic politics will

furbish the answer. The North was al

ways jealous of territorial expansion on

the Southern side of the Union. North

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How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The Opelousas courier. (1870). Opelousas, La., 1870-01-01. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026389/1870-01-01/ed-2/?sp=2

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Opelousas courier, 1870-01-01.