Mike stone
10/29/2009 4:58:00 PM
"Lee Ratner" <lbratner@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I think you need to change Senator Sumner's mind in order to get
>the Dominican Republic annexed into the United States. Senator Sumner
>oppossed annexation because he thought it was more valuable to have
>two free Black nations, the other being Haiti, in the Americas rather
>than just one.
How about if there _is_ no Senator Sumner? Say he dies about the same time
as his House colleague, Thad Stevens?
Obviously, there would still be other opponents, but without Sumner, is
there any chance Grant gets his way?
--
Mike Stone - Peterborough, England
"Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of
Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work
strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby in the
reservoir, he turns to the cupboard only to find the vodka bottle empty".
P G Wodehouse - Jill the Reckless