Speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill: Of Vermont in the Senate of the United States on the Annexation of Hawaii, Monday, June 20, 1898 Mr. Morrill said: Mr. President: I shall trespass upon the time of the Senate only to state why the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands in time of war is more inopportune than in time of peace, and also to state some of the reasons why I am unable to concur with the learned Committee on Foreign Relations in regard to such an annexation, whether by treaty, by joint resolution, by flagrant Executive usurpation, or in any manner which leaves an open door for their admission into the Union as a State. The undesirable character of the greater part of their ill-gathered races of population, gathered by contract to long years of semi-slavery by sugar employers, does not warrant and never can entitle them to an equal representation in the Senate of the United States with Virginia and Massachusetts, or with Illinois and Colorado, nor any other State. A new member, as a business matter, ought not to be pushed into the Union without the consent of all the present members. We can be their friend without taking them into our family. I do not suppose many Senators here will acknowledge that they favor the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands with the idea that they can be at once or ever admitted into the Union as a State. Yet they ought to know that by the terms here presented, copied as they have been from the moribund treaty, they are to be admitted into some back-door vestibule of the Union and may be then admitted as a State at the pleasure of Congress. A square denial and interdiction of this statehood to-day, though embroidered on the breast of a joint resolution or branded on the rump of a treaty, will not bind any future Congress against admission, but might perhaps induce President Dole to inform us that anything less than as an equal to one of the stars of the Union would be unacceptable to him, and it is easy to predict what party would yield. If the islands should be annexed, no matter upon what terms, there would soon be here two men knocking at our doors for admission as Senators. As candidates, they may even now be weary of waiting. Whether or not we shall at the very next election have to wait until the returns are received from Honolulu to determine who has been elected President of the United States remains to be seen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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