Worcester daily spy

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sassinate under cover of night, and to devise

some means for whose suppression congress was

now staying here for days and weeks; vet

the senator called himself a friend of the admin

istration. Admitting the senator’s case to lie

made out, the whole burden of President Grant’s

offence was, that lie would not permit the black

republic of Hayti to cut the throats of the Do

minicans during the progress of treaty negotia

tions with the United States. Was there any

crime in this?

Mr. Sherman—aside—“ Has any one com

pluiued of it.

Mr. Sumner—to Mr. Shermun—"l can answer

that.

Mr. Harlan denied that any one had com

plained, except, perhaps, Cabral. Referring to

the precedent which had been cited for the

president s action, he held that, in the case of

I exits, a solemn promise was given to the Texan

republic, that the moment they signed the

treaty, and before it was ratified, thev should

be protected by the United States. Calhoun,

though poor authority on a question of state

rights, was a very able man, and his spirit was

to-day the very soul of the dcniocrutic partv;

and Calhoun’s argument on the dispatch to

Mexico, already quoted, was: “We had such an

inchoate right that we would not permit Texas

to be invaded while negotiations were pending.”

Mr. Harlan contended that there was no escape

from this position; that the argument on this

point was conclusive. He then quoted from

‘Benton s Thirty Years,” on the point, and con

cluded by moving to lay the resoJutians of Mr.

Sumner on the table.

Mr. Sumner—l hope the senator will allow me

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Worcester daily spy. (1871). Worcester [Mass.], 1871-03-30. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83021205/1871-03-30/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Worcester daily spy, 1871-03-30.