{"1": {"fulltext": "r ngj\\n.K37", "height": "3555", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "cubanindependenc00kenn_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3447", "width": "2012", "jp2-path": "cubanindependenc00kenn_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "CUBAN INDEPENDENCE-WAR WITH SPAIN.\\nTliere are times and conditions when a war-made hell is to ho preferred to hells\\ncroated and existing by other means, and a time and a condition now exists that\\nwarrants war\u00e2\u0080\u0094 war, that the Spanish-created hell in Cuba may be destroyed, and\\nthat that Spanish-created hell of February 15, 1898, may be avenged.\\nSPEECH\\nHON. RICHARD R. KENNEY,\\nOF DELAWARE,\\nSENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,\\nTUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1898.\\nWASHITSTG-TOI*.\\n1898. d\\nat-", "height": "3447", "width": "2012", "jp2-path": "cubanindependenc00kenn_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "272", "height": "3468", "width": "1915", "jp2-path": "cubanindependenc00kenn_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "SPEECH\\nOF\\nHON EICHARD li. KENNEY.\\nThe 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 366 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 condition of affairs in said island, and that said\\ncommittee report by bill, resolution, or otherwise, as it may deem most ex-\\npedient-\\nMr. KENNEY said:\\nMr. President: I feel that little can be said that will be new\\nor original on the Cuban situation. The field of argument and\\noratory has indeed been well covered by the distinguished Sen-\\nators who have already spoken on this most important question;\\nand were it not from a sense of duty that I feel I owe to those who\\nI have the honor in part to represent on this floor, I should not\\ntrespass upon the time of the Senate.\\nMr. President, there is not in all this land a constituency more\\nunited in favor of Cuba s independency than mine. The people\\nof no State have more earnestly espoused the cause of suffering\\nCuba than those of Delaware, and were I to fail to voice their\\nsentiments in this regard and for them to speak to all the world,\\nI would fail in my clear duty to those I represent.\\nMany times during the last half century have the people of Cuba\\nrisen in rebellion and by force of arms endeavored to free them-\\nselves from the bondage of Spanish misrule, and, although often\\ndefeated, have never lost heart. Revolt has followed revolt, and\\nrepeated failures have been the results thereof, but the spirit of\\nfreedom was planted deep in the hearts of the people, and, watered\\nby the patriot blood of thousands slain, grew until to-day it at-\\ntracts the attention of all the world.\\n3205", "height": "3468", "width": "1915", "jp2-path": "cubanindependenc00kenn_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "4\\nThe struggles of the people of Cuba for freedom are known to\\nall students of history, and need no recital from me. Seldom, if\\never, in the history of the world, has there been such an example\\nof unselfish suffering for liberty s sake as by the people of that\\nunhappy island; and if ever there was a people who deserved the\\naid and sympathy of the civilized world, they are the people of\\nCuba.\\nOn May 20, 1897, Mr. President, the Senate passed by a vote of\\n41 to 14 the following joint resolution:\\nA joint resolution declaring that a conditionof public war exists in Cuba, and\\nthat strict neutrality shall be maintained.\\nResolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of\\nAmerica in Congress assembled, That a condition of public war exists between\\nthe Government of Spain and the Government proclaimed and for some time\\nmaintained by force of arms by the people of Cuba, and that the United\\nStates of America shall maintain a strict neutrality between the contending\\npowers, according to each all the rights of belligerents in the ports and ter-\\nritory of .the United States.\\nThe joint resolution went to the House of Representatives and\\nwas, for reasons satisfactory to that body and the Administration,\\nsuffered to sleep the sleep that knows no waking. Had that reso-\\nlution been considered by the other House of Congress and con-\\ncurred in, and the Administration, acting in obedience thereto,\\nrecognized the belligerence of the Cuban insurgents, to-day Cuba\\nwould be free and independent, and so without the help of any\\nnation of the earth thousands of the now dead would be living,\\nuntold suffering and misery would have been averted, and millions\\nof treasure saved. Yes, Mr. President, had belligerent rights been\\ngranted to the Cubans, they would have worked, out their own\\nsalvation, and the United States would not have been compelled\\nto adopt measures contrary to its traditions and to have spent mil-\\nlions of the people s money. The responsibility for this will be, is\\nfixed by the unerring judgment of the American people.\\nMr. President, who is it that refuses to the people of Cuba free-\\ndom? The Spanish Crown. That nation, through whose instru-\\nmentality (by Christopher Columbus in 1492) the islands of the\\nWest Indies were discovered, and who, taking advantage of the\\ncredulity of the innocent and j eaef ul aborigines they found there,\\nfirst enslaved, then debauched, and then persecuted and murdered\\nuntil for more than two centuries they have been extinct; that\\nnation that for more than four centuries has written its history in\\ni 6", "height": "3468", "width": "1915", "jp2-path": "cubanindependenc00kenn_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "blood; that nation that conceived and brought forth the Inquisi-\\ntion, the doings of which put to shame the tortures of the Prince\\nof Hell himself.\\nEven in this age of enlightenment and Christian civilization the\\nSpanish Government lives in the past; goes back to the Dark Ages,\\nto ignorance, bigotry, and intolerance. It is this Spain that re-\\nfuses liberty to the people of Cuba; this nation that in this civ-\\nilized age conducts war not against armed men in the field, but on\\nwomen and the helpless; that uses starvation as its chief weapon\\nand torture as its ammunition. It is Spain that holds in bondage\\nthe people of Cuba; that nation that produced and honored an\\nAlva and created a Weyler, the butcher; that nation so senseless\\nto honor and the instincts of humanity that starving thousands\\nawaken no chord of sympathy in its breast; that nation, which\\nby reason of its brutal misrule and cruelties, though once the pos-\\nsessor of this continent, to-day owns Cuba alone; that nation which\\non the 15th day of February, A. D. 1898, committed the crime of\\nthe nineteenth century\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the destruction of the Maine and the\\nmurder of 206 American seamen in the harbor of Havana.\\nMr. President, was there ever before in the history of the world\\na more diabolical crime? Was there ever such a foul murder so\\nlong unavenged? I see, as I speak, the red flash from that hell-fired\\nmine, and the crash of iron and steel together, with the mangled\\nf orms of the brave sailors and seamen, and hear their shrieks and\\ncries of pain and terror, as crushed and shapeless they are hurled\\ninto eternity.\\nMr. President, it has been the policy of this Government to be\\nat peace with all the nations of the earth, and that policy has been\\nmost faithfully carried out, and war has been entered into only as\\na last resort\u00e2\u0080\u0094 only when every other means has failed. The people\\nof the United States do not to-day desire war for war s sake.\\nThey, many of them, have seen war and know its meaning, the\\nlesson having been learned as participants in great and bloody\\nbattles. They know that war is hell. Yet, Mr. President,\\nthere are times and conditions when a war-made hell is to be pre-\\nferred to hells created and existing by other means, and a time\\nand a condition now exists that warrants war\u00e2\u0080\u0094 war ths.t the Span-\\nish-created hell in Cuba may be destroyed and that that Spanish-\\ncreated hell of February 15. 1898, may be avenged.\\niU5", "height": "3468", "width": "1915", "jp2-path": "cubanindependenc00kenn_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "6\\nNo longer, Mr. President, will American freemen witness star-\\nvation, outrage, and crime in Cuba and remain idle. No longer\\nwill they permit to go unavenged the blood shed in Havana Har-\\nbor. No longer can pleas of wait a little longer hold them\\nback from a duty so clear and plain. No longer can the whim of\\nthe administrative branch of the Government and diplomatic clap-\\ntrap deter them from meting out justice to the perpetrators of\\nthese crimes and outrages.\\nThe honor of the nation is at stake. Humanity demands action,\\naction that is plain grim war. The cold clay, the speechless lips\\nand pulseless hearts of the Maine s dead heroes cry out to us for\\nvengeance; the starving, diseased Cubans pray to us for help.\\nCan we refuse to hear these appeals? No. Mr. President; Ameri-\\ncan manhood and American chivalry give back the answer that\\ninnocent blood shall be avenged, starvation and crime shall cease,\\nCuba shall be free. For such reasons, for such causes, America\\ncan and will fight. For such causes and for such reasons we should\\nhave war.\\n3205", "height": "3468", "width": "1915", "jp2-path": "cubanindependenc00kenn_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3468", "width": "1915", "jp2-path": "cubanindependenc00kenn_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "015 999 921 ft", "height": "3468", "width": "1915", "jp2-path": "cubanindependenc00kenn_0010.jp2"}}