The Present Condition Of Affairs In Cuba PDF Download

Excerpt from Affairs in Cuba: Message of the President of the United States, Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress, on the Relations of the United States to Spain by Reason of Warfare in the Island of Cuba, April 11, 1898 The destruction of the United States battle ship Maine and of 2 of her officers and 264 of her crew in the harbor of Havana on the night of February excited, to an unprecedented degree, the compas sion and resentment of the American people. Manifestations of that resentment were suspended, although the feel ing was not allayed, by the self-restraint of our people, who deter mined to hold their judgment in suspense concerning their ultimate action until an official investigation should disclose the cause of that great disaster and enable them by direct or circumstantial testimony to impute the responsibility therefor. That investigation has been made. It was conducted with judicial thoroughness and deliberation. The difficulty of demonstrating by conclusive proof the efficient personal cause of that sinister event was the usual one of exposing plotted and mysterious crimes. No such difficulty, however, obscures its official and responsible cause. 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.