Santo Domingo wanted to come under our government upon the terms thus described; and for more reasons than I can stop here to give, I then believed, and do now believe, it would have been wise to have received her into our sisterhood of States.
From his autobiography, Douglass reflects on the proposed annexation of Santo Domingo and his belief in its wisdom.
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