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r commercial interests, but that thousands

of brave hearts, already trained to a sea

_ mill's life, rising at their country's peril,

I shall find, ready in the exigence, tho means

.1 that commerce has prepared, and our coun

try be as safe in war as in peace.

I am for the annexation of San Domin

go and the whole of tho Island of Hayti, if

it can bo honorably achieved, and by fur

nishing its principal harbor with com

plete fortifications and ample naval stores,

make it an ever sure ocean home for our

birds of war.

J The other topic for national considera

s tion, and by far the most pressing, ia the

removal of all disabilities whatever from

every participant in tho lato rebellion. I

advocate it. Ido so at this time on the

ground of policy, without at all touching

ij the question of its justice. Among the

reasons for an entire and complete and

practical amnesty, the strongest appears to

me to bo the wholoaale slaughter of political

demagogues that such an act would cause.

The i k and file of those who bore the brufit

of the southern side of that strifo are now

none the worse for it, nor for the restric

tions at present existing upon their late

leaders. This they see but dimly, and

their imperfect vision of it is yet further

obscured by the arts of embittered fossils.

To make them fully aware—beyond the

power of political tricksters to conceal it—

of the fact that tho dead bones of the re

bellion should sleep forever in undisturbed

graves, we cannot err in putting upon it

the broad seal of national magnanimity;

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The Daily state journal. (1871). Alexandria, Va., 1871-03-09. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84024670/1871-03-09/ed-1/?sp=3

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Daily state journal, 1871-03-09.