The New PacificBancroft Company, 1899 - 733 pages |
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... tion soon after annexation . South America , the South sea , Australia , and the far southeast all have ample steam and sail navigation facilities . Further than this , new transpacific lines are constantly springing up , and new ...
... tion soon after annexation . South America , the South sea , Australia , and the far southeast all have ample steam and sail navigation facilities . Further than this , new transpacific lines are constantly springing up , and new ...
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... tion in political and naval matters alone , nor yet altogether for industrial aggrandizement ; there are the intermingling of peoples and the interchange of ideas as well as of commodities , all of which will exercise their influence in ...
... tion in political and naval matters alone , nor yet altogether for industrial aggrandizement ; there are the intermingling of peoples and the interchange of ideas as well as of commodities , all of which will exercise their influence in ...
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... tion may flame or may smolder with varying seasons , but it has not been and it is plain that it cannot be extinguished by present methods . The only hope of relief and repose from a condition which can no longer be endured is the ...
... tion may flame or may smolder with varying seasons , but it has not been and it is plain that it cannot be extinguished by present methods . The only hope of relief and repose from a condition which can no longer be endured is the ...
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... tion . The officers were the embodiment of cool courage and high practical efficiency . The commander - in - chief was worthy to direct such a force , possessing a full practical knowl- edge of everything pertaining to his profession ...
... tion . The officers were the embodiment of cool courage and high practical efficiency . The commander - in - chief was worthy to direct such a force , possessing a full practical knowl- edge of everything pertaining to his profession ...
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... tion to a convent in the town , as the Spaniards have a way of killing or mobbing their unsuccessful commanders . Indeed . in this case , it was at first reported that the brave admiral had been slain by his own people . A week later ...
... tion to a convent in the town , as the Spaniards have a way of killing or mobbing their unsuccessful commanders . Indeed . in this case , it was at first reported that the brave admiral had been slain by his own people . A week later ...
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Page 164 - The Inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States ; and in the meantime they shall be maintained!
Page 143 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Page 496 - In this relation, as showing the volume and value of our exchanges with China and the peculiarly favorable conditions which exist for their expansion in the normal course of trade, I refer to the communication addressed to the Speaker of the House of Representatives by the Secretary of the Treasury on the...
Page 168 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisAtlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe.
Page 169 - You have no authority to throw the rights and liberties and property of this people into hotch-pot with the wild men on the Missouri, nor with the mixed, though more respectable, race of Anglo-Hispano Americans, who bask on the sands in the mouth of the Mississippi.
Page 302 - It is true I cannot prevent the introduction of the flowing poison ; gain-seeking and corrupt men will for profit and sensuality, defeat my wishes ; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people.
Page 43 - I shall refer to these horrible things no further. They are there. God pity me ; I have seen them ; they will remain in my mind forever — and this is almost the twentieth century. Christ died nineteen hundred years ago, and Spain is a Christian nation. She has set up more crosses in more lands, beneath more skies, and under them 'has butchered more people than all the other nations of the earth combined. Europe may tolerate her existence as long as the people of the Old World wish.
Page 189 - That by the ratification of the treaty of peace with Spain it is not intended to incorporate the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands into citizenship of the United States...