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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 55: Fessenden's death.—the public debt.—reduction of postage.— Mrs. Lincoln's pension.—end of reconstruction.—race discriminations in naturalization.—the Chinese.—the senator's record.—the Cuban Civil War.—annexation of San Domingo.—the treaties.—their use of the navy.—interview with the presedent.—opposition to the annexation; its defeat.—Mr. Fish.—removal of Motley.—lecture on Franco-Prussian War.—1869-1870. (search)
re war,—a provision which would be idle words if the Executive were left at liberty to make war before it was thus declared. In Congress these proceedings were justified by Polk's military movements against Mexico, which were the beginning of an unjust war for the extension of slavery; but generally they were disapproved, even by those who justified the President's good intentions. Senator Harlan, who supported the treaty, admitted them to have been irregular. Harper's Weekly wrote, April 15, 1871: There has unquestionably been a misconception of the limits of Executive power, and a consequent action which is constitutionally indefensible. But by such action our government was actually put in the position of assuming dominion in San Domingo, at least for the time being. British dominion in Egypt, with the khedive as a puppet corresponding to Baez, is not more complete than was ours at that time in San Domingo. These war demonstrations were without any previous sanction of Congr
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 56: San Domingo again.—the senator's first speech.—return of the angina pectoris.—Fish's insult in the Motley Papers.— the senator's removal from the foreign relations committee.—pretexts for the remioval.—second speech against the San Domingo scheme.—the treaty of Washington.—Sumner and Wilson against Butler for governor.—1870-1871. (search)
ns, had assumed in the protocol a lofty title. The stress of his speech was in support of the allegation, based on documents, that Baez had been maintained in power by our navy, and that the President had in his message menaced the independence of Hayti; that attempts at jurisdiction in those waters made by our navy were a usurpation and acts of violence and war, contrary to the Constitution and to international law. This use of the ships was condemned in Harper's Weekly, Feb. 11 and April 15, 1871. the waters of a weak power, he said, were as sacred as those of France or England. He found a parallel to the proposed scheme and the spirit with which it was pressed in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and in the Lecompton constitution by which it was sought to subjugate Kansas to slavery. He likened the President's attempt to interfere with the committee on foreign relations to Buchanan's insistence on Douglas's removal in 1868 from the committee on territories in order to car