Weekly national intelligencer

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one of its most important duties, and contribute to the

formation of what he believed to be a wise and honor

able public opinion in reference to important national

questions.

He proposed to call the attention of the committee to

the conduct of the Government in regard to the Island of

Hayti and Nicaragua. He had selected these two topics,

out of the abundant materials for complaint which exist

ed against the Administration, because they were sub

jects in which the State he had the honor to represent

felt an especial interest. As a general principle it was

true, and every body would gee the reason of it in a mo

ment, that the more remote States of the Confederacy,

like California, felt with most sensitiveness every reflec

tion upon national honor, every evidence of national

weakness. The expression tbat I am an American citi

zen was one that was nowhere so proudly uttered as

upon the shores of the Pacific. The American citizen

nowhere turned his eyes to the great federal centre with

more interest in its honor and its power than from the

more remote confines of the country, because rach remote

State would be powerless rind insignificant were it not for

the great power of the whole Union. They leaned upon

it for support: and upon no people had the sense of de

gradation and disgrace, which he should endeavor to

show that the present Administration had inflicted upon

the country, fallen more heavily than upon the people of

California. They perhaps would be weak and impotent

to sustain themselves as an independent republic, and

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Daily national intelligencer · Washington City [D.C.] · January 7, 18537 de enero de 1853 · See the original pageVer la página original

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Weekly national intelligencer. (1853). Washington [D.C.], 1853-01-08. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045784/1853-01-08/ed-1/?sp=8

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Weekly national intelligencer, 1853-01-08.