“During the last session of Congress a treaty for the annexation of the Republic of San Domingo to the United States failed to receive the requisite two-thirds vote of the Senate.” Here he speaks of the rejection of the treaty for the annexion of Dominica, calling it “the Republic of San Domingo.” This is distinctive. Then he proceeds to demand the annexion of the whole island. I read as follows:-- “I now firmly believe, that, the moment it is known that the United States have entirely abandoned the project of accepting as a part of its territory _the island of San Domingo_, a free port will be negotiated for by European nations in the Bay of Samana.” I say nothing of the latter part of the proposition; I leave that to the judgment of the Senate; but here you have a proposition for the whole island of San Domingo. The Senate have rejected a treaty for the annexion of the Republic of San Domingo. MR. MORTON. Mr. President,---- MR. SUMNER. The Senator will not interrupt me now. I shall finish this statement presently, and then he may interrupt me.--Having thus laid down his basis proposing the annexion of the whole island, which is called by the geographers sometimes Hayti and sometimes San Domingo, the President then proceeds to his second menace:-- “The acquisition of San Domingo is desirable because of its geographical position.” He has already described it as “the island of San Domingo,” and it is desirable because of its geographical position,--an argument as applicable to Hayti as to Dominica. Then he proceeds to the third:-- “San Domingo, with a stable government, under which her immense resources can be developed, will give remunerative wages to tens of thousands of laborers _not now upon the island_.” Mark the words, “not now upon _the island_.” It is the island always in view. Then comes the fourth:-- “San Domingo will become a large consumer of the products of Northern farms and manufactories.” It is the whole island. Then the fifth:-- “The acquisition of San Domingo is an adherence to the Monroe Doctrine.” Though nothing in this place is said of the whole island, of course those words are necessarily associated with the previous words, while the argument from the Monroe Doctrine is just as applicable to Hayti as to Dominica. Then the sixth:-- “In view of the importance of this question, I earnestly urge upon Congress early action expressive of its views as to the best means of acquiring San Domingo.” Referring back, of course, to what he has already said. Then he proposes,-- “A commission to negotiate a treaty with the authorities of San Domingo _for the acquisition of that island_, and that an appropriation be made to defray the expenses of such commission.” Here is the proposition undisguised. And he winds up with the ninth:--