 | 1866 - 870 pages
...possession of Spain, seriously endangered the " internal peace and the existence " of the American Union, " then by every '• law, human and divine, we shall be "justified in wresting it from Spain." As President, his only work seems to have been to steer the ship right on to the breakers. The wreckers... | |
 | 1866 - 570 pages
...possession of Spain, seriously endangered the " internal peace and the existence " of the American Union, " then by every " law, human and divine, we shall be "justified in wresting it from Spain." As President, his only work seems to have been to steer the sliip right on to the breakers. The wreckers... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Politics, Practical - 1867 - 510 pages
...and this shall have been refused, it will then be time to consider the question, ' Does Cuba, in the possession of Spain, seriously endanger our internal...wresting it from Spain, if we possess the power." the platform adopted by the convention, it was stated, in connection with other principles to which... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 538 pages
...and Cuba, being in her possession, should " seriously endanger our internal peace, . . . then, by 34* every law, human and divine, we shall be justified in wresting it from Spain." This manifesto, as it was called, received no rebuke from our government. But the republican convention,... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 542 pages
...and Cuba, being in her possession, should " seriously endanger our internal peace, . . . then, by 34* every law, human and divine, we shall be justified in wresting it from Spain." This manifesto, as it was called, received no rebuke from our government. But the republican convention,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - North America - 1877 - 764 pages
...actuated by stubborn pride and a false sense of honor, should refuse to sell Cuba to the United States," then "by every law human and divine, we shall be justified...wresting it from Spain, if we possess the power." Honest Americans would gladly blot this letter from our national records, for it is justly regarded... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1878 - 722 pages
...actuated by stubborn pride and a false sense of honor, should refuse to sell Cuba to the United States," then "by every law human and -divine, we shall be...wresting it from Spain, if we possess the power." Honest Americans would gladly blot this letter from our national records, for it is justly regarded... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1874 - 544 pages
...refuse to sell, and Cuba, being in her possession, should " seriously endanger our internal peace, . . . then, by every law, human and divine, we shall be justified in wresting it from Spain." This manifesto, as it was called, received no rebuke from our government. But the republican convention,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1881 - 926 pages
...actuated by stubborn pride and a false sense of honor, should refuse to sell Cuba to the United States," then " by every law, human and divine, we shall be...wresting it from Spain, if we possess the power." The bald iniquity of the proposition amazed honest people in both hemispheres. Why it should have been... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Buchanan, James - 1883 - 734 pages
...and this shall have been refused, it will then be time to consider the question, does • Cuba in the possession of Spain seriously endanger our internal...Spain, if we possess the power. And this, upon the very same principle that would justify an individual in tearing down the burning house of his neighbor... | |
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After we shall have offered Spain a price for Cuba far beyond its present value, and this shall have been refused, it will then be time to consider the question, Does Cuba, in the possession of Spain, seriously endanger our internal peace, and the existence... 
