How Shall Our New Possessions Be Governed? (Classic Reprint)

For a long time it was a stigma on the name and pretensions of this republic, - nay, a scandal, that the nation which stood for and proclaimed to the world the very acme of human freedom had a great section of its country governed under the system of chattel slavery, of the most com plete kind. Not until 1865 was there any real consistency in the freedom pretensions of the United States. If we institute monarchy or political despotism, or military rule, over the peoples of these new possessions, then we are countenancing the monarchical principle; then we are adopting the form of government and polit ical methods which the Monroe Doctrine declares it to be a part of our misston and destiny to pre vent from ever entering this hemi sphere.

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