 | Natural history - 1896 - 184 pages
...value and this shall have been refused, it will be time to consider the question 'does Cuba, in the possession of Spain, seriously endanger our internal...in wresting it from Spain if we possess the power We should be recreant to our duty, be unworthy of our gallant forefathers, and commit base treason... | |
 | History - 1896 - 466 pages
...value and this shall have been refused, it will be time to consider the question 'does Cuba, in the possession of Spain, seriously endanger our internal...in wresting it from Spain if we possess the power We should be recreant to our duty, be unworthy of our gallant fore-fathers, and commit base treason... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Campaign literature - 1896 - 632 pages
...endangered ' our internal peace and the existence of our cherished Union'; that, if this question should be answered in the affirmative, ' then, by every law,...wresting it from Spain, if we possess the power'; and that we should be 'recreant to our duty — be unworthy of our gallant forefathers, and commit base... | |
 | Edward Payson Powell - Mathematics - 1897 - 488 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... | |
 | John Tyler Morgan - Cuba - 1897 - 284 pages
...the question, Does Cuba, in the possession of Spain, seriously endanger our internal peace and tho existence of our cherished Union? Should this question...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... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - United States - 1897 - 422 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." This was an audacious proposition, and, it must be said, was discreditable to American diplomacy. Gen.... | |
 | World history - 1897 - 600 pages
...actuated by stubborn pride and a false sense of honor, should refuse to sell Cuba to the United States, by every law, human and divine, we shall be justified in wresting it from Spain, if we possess the nower. ' ' In 1855 the United States had disputes with foreign nations. Great Britain was offended... | |
 | Anne O'Hagan, Emma B. Kaufman - Cuba - 1898 - 120 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...from 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... | |
 | Trumbull White - Cuba - 1898 - 604 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...every law, human and divine, we shall be justified iu wresting it from Spain, if we possess the power; and this upon the very same principle that would... | |
 | American Historical Association - Electronic journals - 1898 - 1304 pages
...and this shall have been refused, it will then bo time to consider the question, does C'ub.i, in the possession of Spain, seriously endanger our internal...be answered in the affirmative, then by every law, hnuiau and divine, we shall bo justified in wresting it from Spain if we possess the power; and this... | |
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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... 
