Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too.
The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too