Annexation of Santo Domingo: Speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 7, 1871 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Annexation of Santo Domingo: Speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 7, 1871

Our reputation among our sister republics in America is not wholly unblemished, nor is it, I fear, likely to grow brighter by the history Of the Santo Domingo complications. Not that we have in our foreign relations always been in the wrong, but that we seem to have pos sessed a wonderful aptitude to get embroiled with weaker nationalities. All remember the circumstances of our troubles with Mexico, or of her troubles with us. We tore from her side the large State of Texas. And when she pouted about the extravagant boundary claimed we declared that war existed by her act, and fought bloody battles for three years to make her surrender and sell two or three more large States; but the wounds Of poor Mexico have been bleeding ever since, and if we are looked upon with any favor, it is when in comparison with the French.

Then, in 1852, Greytown, the principal port of one of the republics Of Central America, was bombarded and burned by a naval force of the United States, on the flimsy charge that its inhabitants had infringed the rights of the transit company. N O reparation on our part has ever been made for this wanton and brutal exercise of power.

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