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The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions,

CHAPTER III
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Their mission is to make heroes happy.

I was detained under the royal palms, and other palms that were planted by the missionaries, four weeks, and got away on the ship Peru with Major-General Otis, and when we had gone on for a fortnight, as far as from the Baltic to Lake Erie, we saw some rocks that once were Spanish property.
As we left Honolulu the air was already a-glitter with Star Spangled Banners.

There are three great points to be remembered as to the annexation of Hawaii: 1.

There is not to be a continuance of the slavery of Asiatics in the new possession.
2.

"Manhood suffrage" is not to be extended to Asiatics, often actually as under strictly conventional constitutional construction.
3.


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