{"1": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2fl3i", "height": "4023", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "cubaspeechofhonw00harr_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Digitized by the Internet Archive\\nin 2011 with funding from\\nThe Library of Congress\\nhttp://www.archive.org/details/cubaspeechofhonwOOharr", "height": "3418", "width": "2219", "jp2-path": "cubaspeechofhonw00harr_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "CUBA.\\nA righteqjis wrath and just resentment, the swift punishment of the\\nassassin and the wrongdoer, are wholly different from revenge, and are\\nthe safeguards and protection of a nation among nations.\\nSPEECH\\nHON. WILLIAM A. HARRIS,\\nOF KANSAS.\\nSENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,\\nTuesday, April S, 1898.\\nWASHINGTON.\\n1898.", "height": "3418", "width": "2219", "jp2-path": "cubaspeechofhonw00harr_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "68133\\nJ? SPEECH\\nOF\\ny HON. WILLIAM A. HAEEIS.\\nV\\na** The Senate having under consideration the following resolution\\nResolved, That the Committee on Foreign Relations of this body be directed\\nto report at the earliest practicable moment, and without waiting for the\\nconcurrence or advice of any department of the Government, what action,\\nif any, in view of the loss of the battle ship Maine and the destruction of the\\nlives of 266 American sailors, and in view of the well-known deplorable con-\\ndition of affairs in the Island of Cuba, is required from the Congress of the\\nUnited States to sustain and vindicate the honor and dignity of this nation,\\nand to meet and answer the obligations of humanity imposed on this Gov-\\nernment as the result of the coudition of affairs in said island, and that said\\ncommittee report by bill, resolution, or otherwise, as it may deem most ex-\\npedient;\\nMr. HARRIS said:\\nMr. President: I have but a few words to say. It is not a\\ntime for many words. Those things which were a few months\\nago deemed the wild imaginings of sensational journalists have\\nbeen brought home to this Chamber by some of its ablest mem-\\nbers straight from the field of enactment brought in such a\\nfashion that the hideous reality has chilled our blood and made\\nall previous stories seem flat and tame. The evidence has been\\nso overwhelming of cold-blooded cruelty and murder so foul and\\nvast that all denial has been hushed, and. even the false and inhu-\\nman Government that is responsible is now talking of relief and\\nrestoration to the miserable remnant of humanity that is about to\\ndie: not hundreds, not thousands, but hundreds of thousands of\\nmen, women, and children, tortured, butchered, and starved to\\ndeath at our very threshold, and still we have sniveling, canting\\nhypocrites, who send advice to this Senate to hold back and let\\nthe foul work go on; still we have cold-blooded monsters who\\nargue that it is none of our affair and that intervention will be\\ntrespassing upon the rights, (God save the mark) of a friendly\\npower.\\nMr. President, when Cain, with bloody hands, insolently an-\\nswered his God, Am I my brother s keeper? he formulated the\\ndoctrine of nonintervention; nor have his followers advanced or\\nimproved it. These horrors are not new or sudden spasms of\\nferocity; for four hundred years the flag of Spain has covered no\\nother policy. From the time her steel-clad soldiers appeared among\\nthe naked nations of this New World they have been butchers and\\nrobbers. Half the world was theirs; but humanity could not\\nendure the galling yoke, and heedless of death, seeking it gladly\\nas a welcome release, her tortured subjects have risen and over-\\nthrown the oppressors.\\n2 3306\\n/-35^Y", "height": "3418", "width": "2219", "jp2-path": "cubaspeechofhonw00harr_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "3\\nIn the beautiful Island of Cuba for a generation there has been\\nno peace. Revolt after revolt has occurred, stamped out with\\nunspeakable cruelty at times, and at times, force failing, cajoled\\nand lulled by false promises. Now, after years of struggle, lack-\\ning courage and skill to conquer, the Spaniard has planned and\\ncarried on the destruction by starvation of a whole race. If blood\\nand tears and death are the price of liberty, the Cubans have\\nearned it, and more dearly than any nation of earth.\\nBut, Mr. President, it might seem possible to some men that\\nthis hell might be ignored, might be passed by on the other side,\\nthough in our very path, and we might, like Bismarck, declare\\nthat the lives of the whole Balkan race were not worth the bones\\nof a single American sailor; but there came to us la noche triste,\\nof February 15, 1898, not saddened because of the loss of a few\\nmailed robbers set upon by naked savages, and, tired out by butch-\\nery, falling victims to an outraged people, but because a gallant\\nship and a gallant crew went down to death by treachery\u00e2\u0080\u0094 official\\ntreachery, at which the whole world revolts. Our noche triste\\ncame upon us. forever to be the night most sorrowful and black,\\nmost crammed with horror in all our years, in all the years which\\ntime shall give us. Sir, since that night, when the foul water of\\nHavana closed over the Maine and her crew, the heart of the na-\\ntion has been beating a funeral march, muffled and low, while\\nwaiting the verdict, and it seemed an age.\\n.No race on earth ever exhibited such stern, sad self-control;\\nbut, oh, men in high places here, and beyond the seas, do not de-\\nlude and shame yourselves with the thought that this, the black-\\nest crime of all the ages, will be a mere incident; that this, the\\nfoulest insult that the world has blushed for, will be arbitrated;\\nthat this hideous specter will ever be laid by the diplomatic wiles\\nof a nation that forever lets the false face hide what the false\\nheart doth know; and to-day, Mr. President, all over this land\\nthere is the cry Why do you wait? and the flag snarls and\\nflouts the wind, impatient.\\nOh, God, it can not be that we forget! that we forget!\\nSir, I have seen war. If to die were to reach the summit of\\nhuman calamity, if to weep and mourn for the loved and lost were\\nto make up the sum of human woe, then nothing would be worse\\nthan war. But, sir, there is a crucifixion of the soul when honor\\ndies; there is a death of a nation when the jingle of the guinea\\nheals the hurt that honor feels; there is an existence, when patri-\\notic pride is dead, that doth murder sleep and life becomes a\\nhorrid nightmare, and men shun their fellows, and the laugh of\\nlittle children becomes a taunt and a mockery. True, there have\\nbeen men who could ex\\\\st and thrive and fatten without national\\nhonor or pride or patriotism, like worms in a muck heap, but\\nthat nation has been the scorned of all time and has quickly died.\\nGod forbid that any such should ever be called Americans.\\nSir, I shall never consent that our dead shall lie in Spanish soil\\nand under the Spanish flag. Brave American sailors can know\\nno rest there. When it becomes consecrated by freedom, when\\nthat flag has trailed in the dust, when the Cuban Republic is\\nraised as a monument to the men who went down in the Maine,\\nthen, and then onlv, will they sleep.\\nDo you say this is revenge, and that revenge is unworthy of a\\ngreat nation? No. Mr. President, a righteous wrath and just re-\\nsentment, the swift punishment of the assassin and the wrongdoer,\\n3206", "height": "3418", "width": "2219", "jp2-path": "cubaspeechofhonw00harr_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0xnn i ur\\n\u00c2\u00ab-ur\u00c2\u00ab,KESS\\n4\\nare wholly different from revenge, and are the safeguards and\\nprotection of a nation among nations, and enable us to look the\\nwhole world in the face. What sight more glorious than a nation\\nroused in such a cause as this!\\nGod hates a coward, and a nation timid, halting, and hesitat-\\ning in its foreign policy is a sight despised of G-od arid man. A\\njust war promotes and preserves all that is highest and best in\\nnational life.\\nChrist bought the keys of Paradise\\nBy cruel bleeding.", "height": "3418", "width": "2219", "jp2-path": "cubaspeechofhonw00harr_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3418", "width": "2219", "jp2-path": "cubaspeechofhonw00harr_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n015 999 915 4\\nConservation Resources\\nLig-Free\u00c2\u00ae Type I\\nPh S \u00c2\u00abJ Rnffored", "height": "4000", "width": "2458", "jp2-path": "cubaspeechofhonw00harr_0008.jp2"}}