MR. MORTON. If this Commission go down there, they can return an answer to all these broad statements of the Senator, whether they are true or not. The Senator understands that; but I wish to ask him if he does not know, that, in answer to all this that he is talking about, it has been urged that all parties in San Domingo, whether they are for Baez or Cabral, or whoever they are for, are for annexation? If that is true, all this is utterly immaterial, except as something thrown in to obscure this subject before the public. I aver--and the Commission will show it--that all parties, whether against the Baez Government or for it, are equally for annexation; and if that is true, all this is frivolous. MR. SUMNER. Mr. President, I alluded yesterday to the late Prime-Minister of France, who said that he accepted war “with a light heart.”[262] The Senator from Indiana speaks in the same vein. He says that my allegation is “frivolous.” Sir, never was there a more important allegation brought forward in this Chamber. Frivolous! Is it frivolous, when I see the flag of my country prostituted to an act of wrong? Is it frivolous, when I see the mighty power of this Republic degraded to an act of oppression? Nothing frivolous---- MR. EDMUNDS. What do you say as to the point, What are the wishes of the people of that country? MR. SUMNER. I was remarking on the charge of frivolity; perhaps the Senator will let me finish on that head; I had not finished.--I say that there is nothing frivolous in the suggestion; I insist that it is grave. It is too grave; it is oppressive to this Government and this country. The Senator from Indiana asks, Why not send out this Commission?--he always comes back to his Commission,--Why not send these men out? I say, Why send them out, when we now have in the archives of this Republic evidence that this very Baez is sustained in power by the naval force of the United States, and that he now looks to this force for protection? Can you send out a commission under such circumstances without making yourself a party to the transaction?