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Title: An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Russell, Henry Benajah, 1859- Thurston, John Mellen, 1847-1916 Proctor, Redfield, 1831-1908
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: Hartford, Conn : A. D. Worthington
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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d debates of Guban affairs. The circumstancesunder which the Gameron resolution for the recognition ofthe Gubans was set aside have been already explained, andeveryone had accepted as a fact that the delicate problems in-volved would be left to the new administration with ourSpanish relations still cordial, when Lees practical request forwar ships came like a bombshell in a quiet camp. SecretaryOlney, after the failure of the Spaniards to put into executiona scheme of autonomy in which the President had put his faith,had evidently endeavored to ward off an open rupture withSpain at any cost, while the Spaniards of Guba, thinking, ap-parently, that Americans could be attacked with impunity,began to vent their natural hatred. Gongress had nourisheda feeling of contempt for our diplomatic forbearance withSpain, but, like others, had given up attempts at action. Theconservative element which feared war and the burdens itmight involve even with a power so weak as Spain, had found in X» 75
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FORCEFUL WORDS OF JOHN SHERMAN 341 it easy to avoid syiiipatliy for a few American citizens, most ofwhom Avere of Cuban birth, and the conservative press im-mediatel)^ branded any one who demanded that the governmentshould compel Spain to live up to its treaty obligations as ajingo. But when the Ruiz incident and Lees position becameknown, strong resolutions for insisting upon the protection ofAmerican citizens were introduced in the Senate and passedwithout division, and a resolution demanding the immediate re-lease of Sanguily was also passed after a strong argument bySenator Sherman, who, in four days, was to take Olneys placeat the head of the State department. I trust the time willnever come, he said, when an American citizen can bewronged or persecuted by any power, great or small. That isthe way I feel now. I am in favor of protecting this Americancitizen, though he is a naturalized citizen. I am opposed towrong and tyranny and violence wherever it is exercised, andwhen it is e

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