William McKinley: Message to Congress about Cuban Intervention - Milestone Documents

William McKinley: Message to Congress about Cuban Intervention

( 1898 ) Commentary by Lewis L. Gould, University of Texas at Austin
  • “I speak not of forcible annexation, for that can not be thought of. That, by our code of morality, would be criminal aggression.” - Paragraph 25
  • “When it shall appear hereafter that there is within the island a government capable of performing the duties and discharging the functions of a separate nation, and having, as a matter of fact, the proper forms and attributes of nationality, such a government can be promptly and readily recognized and the relations and interests of the United States with such nation adjusted.” - Paragraph 34
  • “In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests which give us the right and the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop.” - Paragraph 50
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