THE WAR WITH SPAIN |
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That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise
sovereignty , jurisdiction , or control over said island except for the pacification
thereof , and asserts its determination , when that is accomplished , to leave the ...
That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise
sovereignty , jurisdiction , or control over said island except for the pacification
thereof , and asserts its determination , when that is accomplished , to leave the ...
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Página 39 - WHEREAS, the abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than three years in the Island of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shocked the moral sense of the people of the United States, have been a disgrace to Christian civilization, culminating, as they have, in the destruction of a United States battleship, with two hundred and sixty-six of its officers and crew, while on a friendly visit in the harbor of Havana...
Página 39 - First— That the people of the island of Cuba are, and of right ought to be, free and independent. Second— That it is the duty of the United States to demand, and the government of the United States does hereby demand, that the Government of Spain at once relinquish its authority and government in the island of Cuba, and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban...
Página 35 - In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests which give us the right and the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop.