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Show ouit (iitunrit nr anmxitiov. Annexation It lu tho air. Tbopuo pie, ut Dili writing, aiuitlll wotting with m ire or Ion auxluty for tho treaty which l're.ldont Cleveland It auppoted tohe prepirliu Inlleu of tho one ub-inltloJ ub-inltloJ by l'roildeut llirrlsju, At the mndt of tho lonaton limit be natonably will prepared regarding thu tuljuct by thla tluii, therothoiild be but llttlo doUy In haf lug action upon It. It ritpilriaa two-lhlrdt tavorablu votn of thu Henatu lo ratify any treaty, but It la uidertlood that that proportion propor-tion la nluady ooiumllud toauuexa-tlou. toauuexa-tlou. Tho New York .Wjff aid i:tprm holds that nil our iiqhluvemouti in till dlluo.lou ll ive bee 1 lu tie lino of natural progriat that they have never beon lutlimiool by lufrU ie nor con-dj-tot by oojtplrioy. l'erlupi If tho tlnglooxeeptloii of Cub i weromtde,n heirtler utidorao ueut will be given to the nUtoiueut, bit that doea iwt aniounttu m mi. II fdronoe It inalo to the v irlout Hub itlorlug vxpedltlont, all ot whluli tho goveruiileut hit opposed op-posed oven wttero It hai uot tuppreiio I and piiulslmt thoia uii(Uul lu Ilium; an I then wo aro alioaru tliitthomott Important territorial addition otour govirumaut wia tint ellected by riiomut J.H'jr.ou In the purotiaie of I, mill mi Irom Kriuoa lu 13)d, Jidjrua paid Nipilejti $1B,0JI,IUJ for this in iuillouut Aiutrlcau empire, and that turn waa coi . tldurud ut thu tlum nu tUoiiuiito ooiiipouittloii. The li i ililan i territory ter-ritory tixtondel frjm tho (Ijlf of Mtxlc) to the upier Mhtlnlppl aud tho groat lake., uul Ihuuco wettwarj to Muxlcoiiud thu regliu vmbriciug the whole terrltjry of Oregon, l'ho purchase waa tuusequeutly dlvlJuJ lint) what 1 1 lodty IiO'iliitna proper, Arkantu, In Man Territory, Mivoun, Kanali, Nebratt,!!, Iowa, Mlnuetota, Dtkott, Wynmlni tha bait part of Uoloralo, Montim, Idaho,Oroon nud Washington 1 tplenlld aldlilon to our national djiualn, and no on take a double pride In lit u't5il)n, from the fact that It wai acquired by ptact-hit ptact-hit an J houorablo means. Florid wai lubioqtiontly acquired from Hpiln In the tame way, an J Tolas wai taken under clrcumilancet ijulte similar to thou wblua prevail lu the Hawaiian cue; a great number of Anuria nt wio htl aettled In the I.hio Htaratate then an lulopendent repuhl o ukej tj be annexed to the United Hiatal and It wai done, thla being In tun lu 191) Now Mixloo, Uuili an I Uillfornli were purchased, nUhi Igh It It and wai contended by ) in ilnt our aiuntry hid a right lo takelhon bssttiuof tho um'iuoit of Mexico an J not pay anythlui, but thlt lleidld nil provtll. Tno mxt accet-slon accet-slon wai that of Alitalia by reason or what It known at the Galileo ur ciintr, from Mrxiuj. Tnlt uow terrl try wai not given nteparate territorial governniunt until Utl, when John A. Ourley wat appointeJ lit flrit covurnor. In tho meantime tho Unite! eUaha halilleotol the piirchxe of the Indian In-dian Ian It In Ueorgla nuJ Alabama. Thu lattit territorial aciultltion was Aluka,whlch tho Unlto i Hutu bought from It inla In 1807 tor (! ,200,000. Tho czar made Iho flrat overture, but It wat not long before Secretary Hew ird tolled tho opjuirtiiully, accepted Iho oiler, and the United rltaloi governmental once ratlllod the transaction. The prettul It not tbo flrit movement move-ment looking lo the nciiuliltloii of Hawaii. It la a mittorof hl.tory that Iholtlaudi, lu 1611, worn oUered a pro. visional government by thlt oauntry, but It wat refund. They, or thoie who tpoak for Iheoi, have chanted their mlnda decidedly, althoujli It took them fony-nlni yein to do It. |
