Later Aspects of Our New Duties : An Address At Princeton University On Commemoration Day, October 21, 1899
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In any event, with Cuba a State, Porto Eico could not be kept a Territory. No more could the Sandwich Islands. And then, looming direct in our path, like a volcano rising out of the mist on the affrighted vision of mariners tempest tossed in tropic seas, is the spectre of such States as Luzon, and the Visayas, and Hayti. They would have precedents, too, to quote, and dangerous 3 18 LATER ASPECTS OF OUR NEW DUTIES ones. When we bought Louisiana we stipulated in the treaty that " the inhabitants ...of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as pos- sible, according to the principles of the Federal Constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States." We made almost identically the same stipulation when we bought Florida. When one of the most respected in the long line of our able Secretaries of State, Mr. William L. Marcy, negotiated a treaty in 1854, for the an- nexation of the Sandwich Islands, he provided that they should be incorporated as a State, with the same degree of sovereignty as other States, and on perfect equality with them.
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