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agency would receive in those countries.” The London

Times of the same date treats of the new-fangled protectorate

thus

We are at a loss for either precedents or reasons for that

state of protection which the French have imposed by their

sole arbitrary authority on the Society Islands, and proffered

to a portion of Hayti.

We are unacquainted with the real

limitations of this peculiar condition those limitations are

ill-defined and worse guarantied; and we can only under

stand protection to convey all the powers of sovereignty with

out its responsibilities.

Why should Mr. Tyler have used

the ugly word “annexation,” when he might have proposed

to the Senate of the United States, and presented to the world

a treaty for the protectorate of Texas Why should

any Power be solicitous to extend its territories by conquest,

if protectorates are to be multiplied at pleasure over the globe,

and the results of war acquired without its dangers It is

clear that, by whatsoever name the thing be called, it is in

reality the same; it consists in the extinction of independent

sovereignties, in the abrogation of engagements entered into

with other nations, and in a modification, more or less im

portant, of the balance of power. To such changes ns these

the term encroachments is strictly applicable but, although

they may conceal themselves for a time under pretexts of

peace, the end of them is inevitable war; for, as the world is

governed, nothing short of war can legalize such claims.”

The official bulletin of the bombardment of Tangiers,

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Daily national intelligencer. (1844). Washington City [D.C.], 1844-09-06. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1844-09-06/ed-1/?sp=2

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Daily national intelligencer, 1844-09-06.