"Imperialism" and "The Tracks of Our Forefathers"

Charles Francis Adams

Capitolo 34

done race under similar circumstances till now? Precedents, I submit, to
once is suggested. Also, precedents directly in point, and among
His/her and my easy memory.

I report me to the course pursued by us toward Mexico of year 1848, and
again in 1866;  toward Hayti for seventy years back;  and toward
Venezuela as recently as three years ago. It is said that the
inhabitants of the islands of the Antilles, and very more those of the
Philippine archipelago, is still as disabled for maintaining a government;
and what they should be kept in a condition of "guardianship" until them I am
been all right so to do.  You subsequently disputes that a stable government is
necessary, and that it is not possible for us to allow a
the condition of chronic trouble and scandalous nervousness to exist so nearby
our own confinements as Cuba and Rico of I Bring. He/she anchors how much time, I would ask, it did
does that condition exist in Mexico? And with what results? How much time has him
done exist in Hayti? Has the government of Venezuela ever been "stable?"
We have found him to us necessary or thought it better establishing a
government protectorate in some of that immediately adjacent regions?

What has been, historically our policy--the American, as separate
from the European and British policy--toward those communities,--two
of them the Spaniard, an African? Then as they pertain to the foreign powers us,
you/he/she has placed down the principle of "Hand-street." Till now as them really
government pertained to, we insisted that the only way of learning to walk
it was to try to walk, and that the history of humanity didn't show that
nations put under systems of "guardianship,"--it taught to tilt himself/herself/themselves for support
on a superior it power,--never acquired the faculty of independent action.

Of this, with us the fundamental truth, the same British run furnishes a
very notable example. In the forty-fourth year of the Christian era the
island of Great Britain was busy from that that the Romans "Imperial"
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