 | North American review - 1897 - 808 pages
...idea beyond the blind prosecution of the dreadful " strife which means nothing more than the useless sacrifice of human life and the utter destruction of the very subject-matter of the conflict" itself. In the presence of the final issue of death and destruction thus sharply presented by Spain... | |
 | Francis Griffith Newlands - Cuba - 1895 - 580 pages
...the conclusion of the message, that, in such case, our obligations to the sovereignty of Spain are -'superseded by higher obligations which we can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge." Following closely the action of President Monroe in 1818, Congress has already declared in effect its... | |
 | Rafael María Merchán, Gonzalo de Quesada - Bookbinding - 1896 - 684 pages
...struggle for its reestablishment has degenerated into a strife which means nothing more than the useless sacrifice of human life and the utter destruction of the very subject-matter of the conflict.' " Although the President appears to have reached a different conclusion from ours, we believe this... | |
 | Richard Harding Davis - Fiction - 1897 - 154 pages
...struggle for its re-establishment has degenerated into a strife which is nothing more than the useless sacrifice of human life and the utter destruction...we can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge!" These conditions are now manifest. A hopeless struggle for sovereignty has degenerated into a strife... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 830 pages
...struggle for its reestablishment has degenerated into a strife which means nothing more than the useless sacrifice of human life and the utter destruction...we can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge. Deterring the choice of ways and methods until the time for action arrives, we should make them depend... | |
 | Alfred Sidney Johnson - History - 1897 - 1074 pages
...struggle for its re-establishment has degenerated into a strife which means nothing more than the useless sacrifice of human life and the utter destruction...conflict, a situation will be presented in which our obligation to the sovereignty of Spain will be superseded by higher obligations which we can hardly... | |
 | 1897 - 942 pages
...struggle has degenerated into a strife which means nothing more than a useless sacrifice of human life, a situation will be presented in which our obligations...Spain will be superseded by higher obligations which wo can hardly hesitate to recognise and discharge. President Cleveland implies in another passage that... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - Presidents - 1897 - 732 pages
...struggle for its reestablishment has degenerated into a strife which means nothing more than the useless sacrifice of human life and the utter destruction of the very subject-matter of the conflict, a sitnation will be presented in which our obligations to the sovereignty of Spain will be superseded... | |
 | African Americans - 1898 - 510 pages
...struggle for its re-establishment has degenerated into a strife which is nothing more than the useless sacrifice of human life and the utter destruction...we -can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge l" At least a year has elapsed since it has been evident to all those who have eyes to see and ears... | |
 | Republican Congressional Committee - Campaign literature - 1898 - 420 pages
...struggle for its reestablishment has degenerated into a strife which means nothing more than the useless sacrifice of human life and the utter destruction...we can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge. • In my annual message to Congress, December last, speaking to this question, I said: The near future... | |
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... has become manifest and it is demonstrated that her sovereignty is extinct in Cuba for all purposes of its rightful existence, and when a hopeless struggle for its reestablishment has degenerated into a strife which means nothing more than the useless... 
