Worcester daily spy

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plained. We are not sure that the Haytians

themselves know what they want, for they don’t

seem to find anything satisfactory. They have,

just now, a “government” whose chief business

is shooting Sahiavists. Those who control it

will soon be shot in their turn; but none of

those performance* show us what the Haytians

really want. If the United States were an em

pire like Russia, we might subject them per

manently to a military despotism that would se

cure a certain kind of quiet, although it would not

be what they want. If we proceed with this

business of annexation, and take into the Union

all such peoples, including the Patagonians, the

Fucgians, and the Eskimos, we shall soon be

come as uncertain in regard to our wants, as

they.

We have already in the Union as many people

who need training to the business of self-gov

ernment as we are likely to train successfully’

during the life time of the present generation,

not to speak of the Indians, seals, and fur bear

ing animals of Alaska. True respect for repub

lican institutions, and complete submission to

them, has not yet been learned by heart, by all

the people in our southern country; nor by a

considerable portion of those who have come to

us from Europe, as may be learned in the city

of New York. Our duties at home arc more

important to ourselves and to the world, than

these proposed annexation experiments. Our

first duty is to preserve and exalt this republic,

and bring all its communities to the highest

possible condition of enlightenment and repub

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Worcester daily spy. (1870). Worcester [Mass.], 1870-03-05. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83021205/1870-03-05/ed-1/?sp=2

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Worcester daily spy, 1870-03-05.