The northern frontier is the Great Lakes. the southern the Great Gulf. Are we. in our earth hunger. in this insensate greed for additional territory. to stretch the Constitution till it cracks vhen we have got this magnificent domain to develop. this splendid region to gladden with American institutions and to prosper with American industry? We are invited to take these islands of the sea. 2.100 miles from our frontier. inhabited by the most degraded of the Asiatic population. by an effete native race now fast disappearing. all under the doubtful authority of a joint resolution to admit "new States." Mr. President. the gentlemen do not even comply with the precedent they cite. They abolish Hawaiis statehood by the act by which they seek to acquire Hawaii.
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The speaker refers to the Asiatic population as 'the most degraded'.