 When the inability of Spain to deal successfully with the insurrection 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 re-establishment...  The Life Work of William McKinley - Page 73by Edward T. Roe - 1901 - 319 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Holladay Latané - Diplomacy - 1900 - 310 pages
...more than the useless sacrifice of human life and the utter destruction of the very subject-matter of the conflict, a situation will be presented in...we can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge." M The'struggle dragged on from bad to worse with-V out interference on the part of the United States... | |
 | Richard Handfield Titherington - Spanish-American War, 1898 - 1900 - 448 pages
...destruction of the very subjectmatter of the conflict, a situation will be presented in which our obligation to the sovereignty of Spain will be superseded by higher obligations which we can hardly hesitate to recognise and discharge.") 'This cautious utterance was severely criticised in Congress, and several... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 1072 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...the conclusion of the message, that, in such case, our obligations to the sovereignty of Spain are "superseded by higher obligations which we can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge."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... | |
 | Willis Fletcher Johnson - United States - 1903 - 392 pages
...the utter destruction of the very subject-matter of the conflict, a situation will be presented to which our obligations to the sovereignty of Spain...we can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge." President McKinley, in his first message to Congress in the fall of 1897, had also said : — " The... | |
 | Willis Fletcher Johnson - United States - 1903 - 353 pages
...the utter destruction of the very subject-matter of the conflict, a situation will be presented to which our obligations to the sovereignty of Spain...we can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge." President McKinley, in his first message to Congress in the fall of 1897, had also said : — " The... | |
 | United States. Spanish Treaty Claims Commission - Spain - 1901 - 796 pages
...more than the useless sacrifice of human life and the utter destruction of the very subject-matter of the conflict, a situation will be presented in...we can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge." Throughout President Cleveland's Administration this situation was patiently endured at great loss... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth - Cuba - 1904 - 378 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... | |
 | 1905 - 512 pages
...is extinct in Cuba for all purposes of its rightful existence, and when a hopeless struggle for ita reestablishment has degenerated into a strife which...we can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge." — Richardson's " Presidents' Messages," Vol. X, p. 149. 1 " If Spain was already released from liability... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - International law - 1906 - 1056 pages
...more than the useless sacrifice of human life and the utter destruction of the very subject-matter of the conflict, a situation will be presented in...should make them depend upon the precise conditions (hen existing; and they should not be determined upon without giving careful heed to every consideration... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - United States - 1906 - 994 pages
.... . When the inability of Spain to deal successfully with the insurrection has become manifest ... a situation will be presented in which our obligations...higher obligations which we can hardly hesitate to recognise and to discharge. . . . The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity."... | |
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