A Plea for Cuba
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Excerpt from A Plea for Cuba: Addressed to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, Urging Immediate Action in Aid of the Struggle for Independence Now Going on in That Island The President´s message has chilled the hearts of those who hoped that our Government would be disposed to help the struggling patriots of Cuba. There was evidently a great struggle in the Executive mind (or minds) in preparing this morceau for the public taste. "The United States, the freest of all nations" - alas, how is the sacred name of freedom degraded! "Its people sympathise with all peoples struggling for liberty and self government" - sympathy is cheap! "We should abstain from enforcing our views upon unwilling nations without invitation." Old Spain has not invited us to act against her interests in regard to Cuba; therefore we must stifle our "warm feelings and sympathies" for our near neighbors "struggling for independence and freedom." "This nation must be its own judge when to accord the rights of belligerents." But we think the Cuban patriots have nut suffered enough - there has not yet been a sufficient number of martyrs in this holy cause of liberty; not enough Cuban women and children have been sacrificed, not brave men enough have been shot in cold blood or butchered like beasts. The Cubans only hold more than half the territory of the island; they have only sustained their independent government for more than a year against the combined naval and land forces of Spain; Spain, which, though contending against itself, is yet united in holding Cuba in bondage. So we think that Cuba, has not yet done and suffered enough, for us to do more than say, we are sorry for her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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