This is the fruit of seventy years of Congregational teaching and missionary government. "And now it is proposed to annex this island. with its barbarous. idolatrous dirty. debased. Congregational heathen. Christian idolaters. and the 100 006 Mongolians and halfbreed Portuguese to boot. and to bring it into our Reublic as one of the States of our Union to help govern us. Already one branch of Congress has voted to expend $500.000 in beginning to lay a cable for this purpose. which. of course. will involve us in about $3.000 000 more. in addition to that alreay~ incurred. to enable Hawaiians to plant sugar at a cost to this country o $50.000.000 taken out of the public Treasury and put into the pockets of the planters to enable them to employ Mongolians and halfbreed Portuguese. "But we are to spend many millions more in annexing them. We shall have to build war ships to defend our possession when we get it. "I consider this the most dangerous and disastrous proposition that has ever been made in this country. If successful it will launch us upon an era of colonization and of petty. disgraceful foreign wars.
Identified stereotypes
The speaker uses derogatory terms like 'barbarous, idolatrous dirty, debased' to describe the population.