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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section tenth : downfall of the Rebellion . (search)
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xx. (search)
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The President, and a strong party with him, were anxious to secure the annexation of Dominica, and with this object in view, on the 5th of December, 1870, in his annual message, he had said: I now firmly believe that the moment it is known that the United States have entirely abandoned the project of accepting as a part of its territory, the Island of San Domingo, a free port will be negotiated for by European powers, in the Bay of Samana; and ringing some changes upon the Monroe doctri pted the appointment of this Commission was by no means limited to inquiry concerning the condition of that Island, but it committed Congress to the policy of its annexation.
He foresaw that the country would suffer in its good name; that the negotiation for annexation was begun with a person known as Buenaventura Baez, whom official and unofficial evidence showed to be a political jockey; that it was a scheme which would be attended with violence towards Dominica and violence towards Hayti.
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 12 : Kossuth .—1852 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45 : an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861 -1862 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 52 : Tenure-of-office act.—equal suffrage in the District of Columbia , in new states, in territories, and in reconstructed states.—schools and homesteads for the Freedmen .—purchase of Alaska and of St. Thomas .—death of Sir Frederick Bruce .—Sumner on Fessenden and Edmunds .—West .—1866 -1867 . (search)
the prophetic voices.—lecture tour in the
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