Worcester daily spy

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dispath to United States Minister Bassett, from

the Hayticn secretary of foreign affairs, as

suring him that Hayti had no disposition or de

sire to interfere with the Dominicans. As a

further reply to Mr. Sumner, he reminded the

senate, as evidence that the administration had

not proposed to take any immediate action up

on annexation, that the committee had no power

to negotiate a treaty, and no one went

with them who could take a single

step in that direction. The Haytien

government, in violation of the law of na

tions, had given free passage across its terri

tory to Cabral, and furnished him with war ves

sels to attack Dominica; and the United States

had merely notified Hayti that while our nego

tiations were pending with Dominica, we would

not allow her to make war upon that island.

This the United Slates had an undoubted right

to do, because our government had information

of organizations on so t in Hayti to defeat an

nexation. No one need tell him, Morton, that

the senator from Massachusetts was a friend

to liberty or the colored man, when he so in

dustriously spent his time in an effort to put

the democratic party in power. The senator

could not strike a blow at the president without

at the same time, striking a-blow at the repub

lican party.

Mr. Howe cited various historical instances,

in which public men who had been regarded

with universal esteem by their countrymen, had,

by subsequent acts of misguided zeal and pas

sion, forfeited that confidence and relapsed into

obscurity, or assumed positions at utter vari

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Worcester daily spy. (1871). Worcester [Mass.], 1871-03-28. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83021205/1871-03-28/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Worcester daily spy, 1871-03-28.