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... Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review - Page 4111859Full view - About this book
| 1855 - 1416 pages
...consider the question, does Cuba in the possession of .Spain seriously endanger our internal peaee and the existence of our cherished Union ? Should...divine, we shall be justified in wresting it from Hoaiu, if w? possess the puwer. And this upon tin; very same principle that would justify an individual... | |
| Henry Anthony Murray - 1855 - 510 pages
...prosperity of Canada, and then imagine them winding up their report with this clause—If it be so—' then by every law, human and divine, we shall be justified in wresting it from its present owners.' The American who penned that sentence must possess a copy of the Scriptures unknown... | |
| 1855 - 902 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 peace, and the existence of our cherished Union ? Bhould thia question be answered in tho affirmative, then by ever law, human and divine, we shall... | |
| Henry Wheaton, William Beach Lawrence - 1855 - 942 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 peace, and the existence of our cherished Union ? ' The President concurs in this view of the subject. But to conclude that, on the rejection of a... | |
| Rushmore G. Horton - 1856 - 454 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,... | |
| 1856 - 88 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...in wresting it from Spain if we possess the power." Mr. Buchanan's Record. The Richmond Enquirer thus endorses Buchanan : — " In private as well as in... | |
| Anna Ella Carroll - 1856 - 146 pages
...dollars,— 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...in wresting it from Spain, if we possess the power. Under such circumstances, we ought neither to count the cost nor regard the odds which Spain might... | |
| 1856 - 40 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 peace and the existence of our cherished Union Î »oes the power — and this upon the very same principle that would justify an individual in tearing... | |
| 1857 - 654 pages
...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...justified in wresting it from Spain if we possess the powef ; ana tliis upon the very same principle tliat would justify an individual m tearing down the... | |
| George Melville Weston - 1857 - 336 pages
...United States, familiarly known as the "Ostend Manifesto," the following paragraphs: "Does Cuba, in the possession of Spain, seriously ' endanger our internal...law, ' human and divine, we shall be justified in wrest' ing it from Spain. "We should be recreant to duty, be unworthy of ' our gallant forefathers,... | |
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