The New PacificBancroft Company, 1899 - 733 pages |
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Page 19
... Cuba , Porto Rico , Hawaii , and the Philippines , with the cost of the war with Spain , assume small proportions . It was the beginning of a period of prosperity which would have come to the United States irrespective of the stimuli of ...
... Cuba , Porto Rico , Hawaii , and the Philippines , with the cost of the war with Spain , assume small proportions . It was the beginning of a period of prosperity which would have come to the United States irrespective of the stimuli of ...
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... Cuba , her mis- government at home , and her treatment of captives in Mont- juich fortress are fresh in our ... Cuban insurgents . " And thus the London Times of August 15th . " If foreign observers might presume to have an opinion upon ...
... Cuba , her mis- government at home , and her treatment of captives in Mont- juich fortress are fresh in our ... Cuban insurgents . " And thus the London Times of August 15th . " If foreign observers might presume to have an opinion upon ...
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... Cuba ! As early as 1503 the inhabitants of the discovered islands . were declared free , but their freedom was worse than slavery , the man's labor belonging to the conqueror , at a wage of the governor's naming , but without property ...
... Cuba ! As early as 1503 the inhabitants of the discovered islands . were declared free , but their freedom was worse than slavery , the man's labor belonging to the conqueror , at a wage of the governor's naming , but without property ...
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... Cuba are mostly of Spanish origin , with intermixtures of Indian and negro ; some of them are of pure European blood . There were before the American war with Spain two political parties , Spaniards and Cubans loyal to Spain , and Cubans ...
... Cuba are mostly of Spanish origin , with intermixtures of Indian and negro ; some of them are of pure European blood . There were before the American war with Spain two political parties , Spaniards and Cubans loyal to Spain , and Cubans ...
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... Cubans in Mexico had appealed in vain to the embryo republic to lend 1,500 men with Santa Anna as leader to help ... Cuba , it was equally well understood that the American government would never permit any other power , particularly ...
... Cubans in Mexico had appealed in vain to the embryo republic to lend 1,500 men with Santa Anna as leader to help ... Cuba , it was equally well understood that the American government would never permit any other power , particularly ...
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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 191 - ... prepare them for local self-government, and in due time to make such disposition of said islands as will best promote the interests of the citizens of the United States and the inhabitants of said islands.
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 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 45 - 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 618 - The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free ; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea...
Page 220 - I even go so far as to say that, terrible as war may be, even war itself would be cheaply purchased if in a great and noble cause the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack should wave together over an Anglo-Saxon alliance.