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The Express is not in favor of the general policy

of extension and annexation, if States are to be made

of the new acquisitions.

to the system when once begun.

There is no end fit says)

The very neces

sity that makes the Sandwich Islands necessary

makes more necessary Japan.

Holding Cuba,

Hayti, Jamaica, all the West India Islands ought to

be ours.

We thus take a step, we mean to say, that

imposes upon us grand armies, grand fleets, and the

maintenance of them all by us; for it is obvious

that, as we step of our own continent to face the

world, we must have navies and armies such as that

world has.

It will not do to have the Sandwich

Islands and Cuba without the military and naval

power to keep them, in war as well as in peace. If

once in the Union, the flag of the Union must al

ways protect them.

It is a very different thing,

then, annexing Cuba or the Sandwich Islands, from

annexing a territory we can reach without going

over the water.

Besides, these countries are al

ready settled the people arc there their territory

is not a wilderness; and hence there is no reason,

if we extend over them protection, that we should

share with them to the extent of enabling them to

make laws for us, and to compel ourselves to be

subject to them.

There is no reason for taking the

Sandwich Islands and giving each two Senators in

Congress, or Cuba, ami giving it two Senators in

Congress; because that would, in the smaller and

higher branches of Government, be making such a

State as New York share government equally with

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Daily national intelligencer. (1854). Washington City [D.C.], 1854-09-14. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-09-14/ed-1/?sp=3

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Daily national intelligencer, 1854-09-14.