When the inability of Spain to deal successfully with the insurrection has become manifest and it is demonstrated that her sovereignty is extinct in Cuba for all purposes of its rightful existence, and when a hopeless struggle for its re-establishment... The Life Work of William McKinley - Page 73by Edward T. Roe - 1901 - 319 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1897 - 808 pages
...subject-matter of the conflict, a situation will be presented in which oar obligations to the sovereign of Spain will be superseded by higher obligations,...we can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge." This notable and eloquent passage is nothing but the expression in a clear and dogmatic form of a condition... | |
| Francis Griffith Newlands - 1895 - 580 pages
...the conclusion of the message, that, in such case, our obligations to the sovereignty of Spain are -'superseded by higher obligations which we can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge." Following closely the action of President Monroe in 1818, Congress has already declared in effect its... | |
| United States. President - 1897 - 494 pages
...more than the useless sacrifice of human life and the utter destruction of the very subject-matter of the conflict, a situation will be presented in...we can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge. In my annual message to Congress December last, speaking to this question, I said: The near future... | |
| United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1897 - 732 pages
...sacrifice of human life and the utter destruction of the very subject-matter of the conflict, a sitnation will be presented in which our obligations to the...we can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge. In my annual message to Congress December last, speaking to this question, I said: The near future... | |
| 1897 - 942 pages
...struggle has degenerated into a strife which means nothing more than a useless sacrifice of human life, a situation will be presented in which our obligations...Spain will be superseded by higher obligations which wo can hardly hesitate to recognise and discharge. President Cleveland implies in another passage that... | |
| Alfred Sidney Johnson - 1897 - 1074 pages
...destruction of the very subjectmatter of the conflict, a situation will be presented in which our obligation to the sovereignty of Spain will be superseded by...we can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge." The president does not indicate what measures we should adopt in such a case; but asserts our duty... | |
| Henry Allen Tupper - 1898 - 284 pages
...pending struggle it was said : " ' When the inability of Spain to deal successfully with the insurrection has become manifest, and it is demonstrated that her...we can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge.' President McKiniey's Hint of Intervention in HIs Message Last December. " In my Annual Message to Congress... | |
| Frederic M. Noa - 1898 - 108 pages
...which means nothing more than the useless sacrifice of human life and the utter destruction of that very subject matter of the conflict, a situation will...we can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge." On the nth of April, President McKinley sent to Congress a special message, in which he carefully reviewed... | |
| 1898 - 418 pages
...nothing more than the useless sacrifice of human life and the utter destruction of the very subjects matter of the conflict, a situation will be presented...we can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge. In my annual message to Congress, December last, speaking to this question, I said: The near future... | |
| Charles Morris - 1898 - 450 pages
...if nothing remained but useless sacrifice of human life and utter desolation of the subject-matter of the conflict, ' ' a situation will be presented...we can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge." The scarcely veiled threat under these diplomatic utterances proved anything but palatable to Spain,... | |
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