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lan then read from Mr Sumner’s speech the

passage where he characterized President Grant

as head of the Dominican kuklux, during which

Mr Sumner exclaimed approvingly, “that is so."

The senator (Mr Sumner) bud described the presi

dent as worse than the democratic kuklux, who

assassinate under the cover of night, and to de

vise some means for whose suppression Congress

was now staying here for days and weeks. Yet

the senator calls himself a friend of the adminis

tration. Admitting the senator’s case to be

made out, the whole burden of President Grant's

offense was that be would not permit the black

republic of Hayti to cut the throats of Domini

cans, during the progress of treaty negotiations

with the United States. Was there any crime in

this?

Mr Harlan denied that any one had complained

except perhaps Cabral. Referring to the prece

dent which had been cited for the president’s

action, he held that in the case f f Texas a sol

emn promise was given to the Texan republic

that the moment they signed the treaty, and be

fore it was ratified, they should be protected by

the United States. Mr Calhoun, though poor

authority on questions of slate rights, was a very

able man, and his spirit was to-day the very soul

of the democratic party. Calhoun’s argument on

the dispatch to Mexico already quoted was that we

had such an inchoate right that we would not

permit Texas to be invaded, while negotiations

were going on. Mr Harlan contended that there

was no escape from this position, that the argu

ment on the point was conclusive. He then

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Springfield weekly Republican. (1871). Springfield, Mass., 1871-03-31. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83020847/1871-03-31/ed-1/?sp=5

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Springfield weekly Republican, 1871-03-31.