{"1": {"fulltext": "(7Sf(o\\n\u00c2\u00a927", "height": "4044", "width": "2535", "jp2-path": "cuba00otey_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Digitized by the Internet Archive\\nin 2011 with funding from\\nThe Library of Congress\\nhttp://www.archive.org/details/cubaOOotey", "height": "3479", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "cuba00otey_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "v\\nvr s .*?i _\\nCUBA.\\nThe tooth often bites the tongue, and yet they keep together in harmony when\\nwork is to he done for the good of the whole body. Banish proverb.\\nBe sure you re right, then go ahead. Davy Crockett.\\nSPEECH\\nOF\\nHon. PETER J. OTEY,\\nOF VIRGINIA,\\nIN THE\\nHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,\\nTuesday, April 12, 1898.\\nWASHINGTON.\\n1898.", "height": "3479", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "cuba00otey_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0On\\n68536\\n5-", "height": "3479", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "cuba00otey_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "SPEECH\\nOF\\nHON. PETER J. OTEY\\nThe House being- in Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, ana\\nhaving under consideration the House amendments to the bill (S. 024) to\\nauthorize the Washington and Glen Echo Railroad Company to obtain a right\\nof way and construct tracks into the District of Columbia bOU feet\\nMr. OTEY said:\\nMr. Chairman: I shall endeavor to confine my remarks to tiie\\nbill now before the House, as no one has referred to it so far.\\n[Laughter.] And so, in considering this railroad bill, I desire to\\nsay that this House is practically without any detailed official\\ninformation which in my opinion enables it at this moment to act\\npromptly and discreetly, decisively and patriotically, on the Cuban\\nquestion. [Laughter.]\\nThis essential information will not be given us until the Com-\\nmittee on Foreign Affairs sees fit to do so.\\nIn the meantime, Mr. Chairman, that side of the Chamber the\\nmajority of this body will, in my opinion, do absolutely nothing.\\n[Applause.] What I will do when all the facts are before us\\nwhat course I will pursue when we are possessed of the knowl-\\nedge now in possession of the Foreign Affairs Committee, I caa\\nnot now say. But I do not believe that there is a member of this\\nbody who, when the supreme hour comes, will shirk his duty to his\\ncountry aye, to his God. [Applause.]\\nBut, Mr. Chairman, the question then will be, What is his duty?\\n[Laughter.]\\nIn his novel, The Fair God, Gen. Lew Wallace, a gallant Federal\\nofficer, puts into the mouth of Itzell, the Tezcucan warrior, the\\nfollowing words, as he addressed Montezuma:\\nI intend my words to be respectful, mighty King. A common wisdom\\nteachesus to respect the brave man and dread the coward. A throne\\nmay be laid amid hymns and prayers, but to endure it must rest on the alle-\\ngiance of love.\\nThe scene witnessed on this floor a few days ago, when with\\nunprecedented unanimity this body voted \u00c2\u00a750,000,000 as an emer-\\ngency fund, was, to my mind, one that touched the American\\nheart as no other scene has in the last third of a century; and\\nwith that fresh in my memory, and in view of the grave and\\nsolemn responsibility which we must very soon meet, it is, I hope,\\nnot out of place in me to speak, from a Virginian standpoint, as\\na Southern man, as a former rebel soldier, and to raise my voice\\nin commendation of the brave, to ignore the coward, and to mani-\\n3220 3", "height": "3479", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "cuba00otey_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "fest my great joy at the testimony already given by this body\\nthat the foundation of our great Republic rests on the allegiance\\nof love. [Loud applause.]\\nMr. Chairman\\nThe drying up a single tear has more\\nOf honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.\\nAnd I am sure there is not a patriot on this floor who would not\\nprefer peace to war.\\nIn the language of Tennyson, we would all prefer to extend our\\ndominion of peace\\nTill the war drum throbb d no longer, and the battle flags were furl d\\nIn the parliament of man, the federation of the world.\\nBut, Mr. Chairman, events have been crowded upon us, and I\\nfear that we have exhausted all demands on patriotic patience and\\nforbearance, on justice and on humanity. It appears to me that\\nthe time for diplomacy has passed, and that the time for action,\\nas grave and as serious as it is, is upon us [applause] Mr. Chair-\\nman.\\nWar is a cruel monster. It is the desolator and destroyer of\\nhomes and happiness. Its course is marked by the silent sentinels\\nof devastation, standing amid the sighs of widows and the tears\\nof orphans.\\nThe splendor of our nation may dazzle us, but we have only to\\nlook back upon the ruins of Babylon, Carthage, and Rome to\\nshow us that war corrupts, enervates, and destroys nations, while\\npeace is the great conservator of power, of happiness, of civil and\\nreligious liberty.\\nMy voice and my pen have been for peace, and I am still for\\npeace, if war can be averted with honor. [Applause.]\\nWar is a mad game, at which the rich will play to profit by it.\\nIt enriches the few and bleeds the millions. We have forty-five\\nstars, representing forty-five States, each an empire within itself,\\nand within our borders there are others asking to be added to\\nthis glorious constellation and appealing in vain, while some look\\nwith eagerness to adding the lone star of Cuba.\\nWe have the greatest and most continuous and most unsevered\\nempire of civilized, enlightened, and progressive people on earth,\\nand the real development of our resources has hardly yet begun.\\nFour-fifths of our arable land are not yet under cultivation and\\na still larger proportion of our mineral wealth is undeveloped,\\nand there is no limit to our manufactures except the needs of the\\nworld. We are untrammeled by the enervating effect of a large\\nstanding army.\\nThere is room in one State (Texas) for over 50,000,000 of people,\\nand so far from population being then as dense as it is to-day in\\nEngland, there would be sufficient fertile land on which to raise\\nall the cotton used in the world and to supply the entire food prod-\\nuct necessary for the United States of America. Our streams\\npenetrate all sections of our land, laden with our domestic com-\\nmerce, giving more miles of navigation than the whole of Europe.\\nWe have more railroads than the balance of the world combined,\\nand if projected on a single track would reach from here to the\\nmoon.\\nWe of tho South know something of the ravages of war; our\\nbrethren of the North do not know, for they have never expe-\\nrienced it. And if war come, we of the South know that we have\\nnothing to gain in a commercial way\u00e2\u0080\u0094 we have everything to\\n323)", "height": "3479", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "cuba00otey_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "lose. Every man taken from our producing capacity will lessen\\nour material advancement. A generation has passed away since\\nour great struggle, and yet we of the South have not yet recov-\\nered from its blighting effects. Our Southland, which to-day\\nshould be blossoming like a rose, is yet in the midst of suffering.\\nNo people have ever manifested such manhood and courage in\\nadversity, no people have ever had to fight uphill as they have,\\nand none have ever merited triumph more; and now, as light be-\\ngins to penetrate the long night of our discomfiture, we ought to\\nhesitate to go to war as long as peace, with honor, is possible.\\nOur martial fervor wiJl be no less emphatic, our patriotic zeal\\nwill be no less pronounced, if war must come.\\nBut we will face it as we have always done, yet knowing that\\nit means more taxes, more oppression, more pensions, more privi-\\nleged classes, more misery and less happiness, more concentration\\nof power in the hands of the few all for what? To preserve un-\\ntarnished the honor of our country, to avenge the death of our\\ncitizens. [Applause.] Mr. Chairman, the destruction of the bat-\\ntle ship Maine has\\nDeposited upon the silent shore\\nOf memory images and precious thoughts\\nThat shall not die, and can not be destroyed.\\nThe diplomacy of Spain will now perhaps be in vain. In the\\nfuture (if war must come) it will be your joy to recall, and your\\nchildren and your children s children will be proud to read in the\\nhistory of their country, that you met the issue as Americans. It\\nwill be the pride of posterity to know that you promoted and pro-\\ntected the honor of their great country. It will honor you for the\\nstep which perhaps you are soon to take. [Applause.]\\nMr. Chairman, I may be pardoned for some reflections and ob-\\nservation which may interest the young men who are to fight the\\nbattles of our country. The proud and awful names of Grant\\nand Lee may well be coupled together, having been left to us as\\nlights for after times. A third of a century ago, in this very\\nmonth, after a prolonged and bloody civil strife, we of the South\\nlaid down our arms. To have doubted our courage, endurance,\\nprowess, self-abnegation, would have been to belittle these very\\nvirtues in the gallant soldiers who overcame us.\\nGreatness consists in the achievement of great deeds, and who\\nwill deny that our brothers in blue achieved them? To under-\\nestimate them would be to underrate ourselves. A victory won\\nwithout struggle is won without merit; then so much the greater\\nhonor to the victor who must struggle to accomplish it. No\\ngreater tribute can be paid to the military renown of the North-\\nern generals than the admission of great military qualities of\\nthose who surrendered to them.\\nTo say that Lee, Jackson, and Stewart were great milifcaiw lead-\\ners and had no superiors adds luster to the American name, and\\nbut sheds greater splendor on the renown of Grant, Sherman, and\\nThomas. To admit that Picketfs charge at Gettysburg was\\nequaled by no charge of modern times, but adds glory to the\\nbrave men that withstood and repulsed it. [Applause.]\\nHistory records no such defense as that of Fort Sumter, which\\nonly adds fame to the navy that reduced it. [Applause.]\\nMiltiades, freedom s best and bravest friend, was the greatest of\\ngenerals, and yet he did not disparage the courage and the fame\\nof Datis and his Persian army. Had he done so he would have\\n3226", "height": "3479", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "cuba00otey_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "6\\ndimmed his own luster and lessened the splendor of his great\\nachievements and deprived his gallant men of the immortal name\\njustly earned by them on the field of Marathon over two thou-\\nsand years ago.\\nIf you treat the military renown of Cornwallis and Burgoyne\\nwith contempt, you sully the glory of Washington. Wellington\\nwould be shorn of his laurels but for the admitted greatness of\\nNapoleon. General Grant might have received the surrender of a\\nmillion Chinese and it would not have added one-thousandth part\\nof the luster to his name as did the surrender of Robert E. Lee at\\nAppomattox. [Applause.] While St. Helena is a blot on the\\nname and fame of Wellington, Appomattox is the brightest gem\\nin the crown of U. S. Grant. [Applause.]\\nHis great achievement was equaled only by his magnanimity.\\nHe spoke of us before the surrender at Appomattox as we are now\\nspoken of by all men. When at Vicksburg, he wrote General\\nPemberton:\\nMen who have shown so much endurance and courage as those under\\nyour command in Vicksburg will challenge the respect of any adversary.\\nHe knew them as it was expressed by Charles Francis Adams\\nwhen he was minister to England, as related by my friend Mr.\\nL acey of Iowa, in an address made last May, at the encampment of\\nthe Grand Army of the Republic at Des Moines. After the first\\nbattle of Manassas, Mr. Adams was at a reception when the news\\nof the Confederate victory was first announced. A courtier said\\ntauntingly to Mr. Adams: These Confederates fight well, at any\\nrats. Yes, said Mr. Adams, of course they do, sir; they are\\nmy countrymen. [Applause.] Gen. U. S. Grant felt and rec-\\nognized this. After the fall of Richmond he declined to enter it\\nin triumph or even without pomp and parade, and when asked to\\ndo so said:\\nNo, I do not care to go. These people feel too keenly already the injury of\\nwar, and I do not intend, even by my presence, to seem to them as one who\\nfinds pleasure in viewing the wreck of their beloved capital and country.\\nSo, too, when he was at Atlanta and was asked to ride over the\\nfields that marked his triumphs, he said:\\nI can not bear to go and view these fields where so many heroes on both\\nsides have fallen.\\nMr. Speaker, this honored American said, Let us have peace,\\nand my voice would echo his words to-day if there was such a\\nthing with honor. The clouds of prejudice necessarily engen-\\ndered by our civil strife have now happily given way to the bright\\nsunshine of magnanimity and good feeling.\\nIn view of the impending war, it is, I hope, not asking too much\\nthat I may\\nWet with unseen tears\\nThose graves of memory where sleep\\nthose of glorious deeds who fought in 1861-1865, in order that\\nthose who are to follow on other fields may be stimulated to emu-\\nlate their example.\\nIn doing so I shall refer to some records which can not be\\nequaled for heroism and matchless courage and may prove a use-\\nful lesson to our young men who to-day are stirred with com-\\nmendable martial fervor and laudable patriotic zeal.\\n823u", "height": "3479", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "cuba00otey_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "1 want our young men to study the history of the four years,\\n1861 to 1865. Without being invidious, I shall call attention to\\nsome examples of heroism which may be useful lessons to them\\nin this day and generation. History records no such loss as is re-\\ncorded of the Twenty-sixth North Carolina at Gettysburg of 87\\nper cent, and the First Minnesota on the same field of 83 per cent,\\nand it is simply one of the many pages emblazoned with American\\nvalor, audacity, and courage. [Applause.] When we see the\\nFirst Texas holding its position at Antietam with a loss of 82 per\\ncent, and the First Massachusetts standing firm under a loss of\\n68 per cent, no man can doubt how the sons of these men will\\nstand together now.\\nWhen the One hundred and first New York at Manassas, in\\nchanging its position in good order, sustained a loss of 74 per cent,\\nand the Twenty-first Georgia followed the movement with a de-\\npletion of 76 per cent; when at Shiloh the Ninth Illinois was\\nimmovable under a fire that placed 63 per cent of its men hors de\\ncombat, while only a few hundred feet in its front stood the Sixth\\nMississippi, sustaining a loss of 70 percent; when the One hundred\\nand fifty-first Pennsylvania inflicted a loss of 70S on the Twenty-\\nfirst North Carolina, itself sustaining a loss of 355 of its own men,\\nno one can doubt that immortality is written on the name of the\\nAmerican soldier. No one will doubt that to-day, joined together\\nin the same cause under the same flag, the sons of those who fought\\nfor as well as of those who fought against the Stars and Stripes in\\n1S61-1S65 will be invincible, whether on land or sea, and Spain\\nwould do well to beware of them. [Loud applause.]\\nMr. Chairman, your son or your grandson will read or perhaps\\nhas read of when you participated in the bloody charge at Cold\\nHarbor; or the heroism you displayed at the bloody angle at\\nSpottsylvania; or how you scaled the rocky cliffs of Lookout\\nMountain. And yet on the same page he will read how another\\ngrandfather (for his mother, perhaps, was the daughter of a rebel\\nlike myself) was in the forefront of Pickett s charge at Gettys-\\nburg, at which the whole world stood spellbound in admiration;\\nor perhaps he was one of those who made the name of the Amer-\\nican soldier immortal by his participation in the defense of Fort\\nSumter. Will the grandson think less of his grandfather that\\nwore the gray than of the one that wore the blue? [App ause.]\\nSome of you may have daughters who perhaps have married\\nthe sons of a gallant rebel (and I like the name retel, for I was one\\nmyself). [Laughter.]\\nShould the son of the veteran of the First Minnesota marry the\\ndaughter of the veteran of the First Texas, or vice versa, their\\nchildren would boast that they had a grandfather in each regiment,\\nboth renowned for their fighting qualities, the one having lost 83\\nper cent at -Gettysburg, and the other 82 per cent at Antietam.\\nThe grandson of a veteran of the One hundred and first New York\\nwill ever be proud that his paternal grandfather belonged to that\\nsplendid regiment, while he would look with equal pride on the\\npage of history that recorded the gallant deeds of the Twenty-first\\nGeorgia, in which, perchance, his maternal grandfather fought,\\neach regiment having lost 76 out of every 100 of their men on the\\nhistoric field of Manassas.\\nI think it a useful lesson to call attention to these things. Lst\\nus look at the losses here tabulated, and then ask if it does not\\nmake every American heart throb with pride, and whether these\\n3^20", "height": "3479", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "cuba00otey_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "015 809 029 6\\nfigures of themselves do not give assurance of the invincibility of\\nthe American soldier of to-day. He re are a few instances of losses\\nin Confederate and Federal regiments during the war:\\nFEDERAL.\\nName of regiment.\\nBattle.\\nLoss.\\nFirst Minnesota..-\\nOne hundred and forty-first Pennsylvania.\\nOnehundred. and first New York\\nTwenty-fifth Massachusetts\\nThirty-sixth Wisconsin\\nEighth Vermont\\nTwenty -fourth Michigan\\nFifth New Hampshire\\nGetty shurg\\ndo\\nManassas\\nCold Harbor\\nBethesda Church\\nCedar Creek\\nGettysburg\\nFredericksburg\\nPer cent.\\n83\\n76\\n74\\n70\\nCONFEDERATE.\\nName of regiment.\\nBattle.\\nLoss.\\nPer cent.\\n87\\nManassas\\n76\\n73\\nShiioh\\n71\\n68\\nPalmetto Sharpshooters, South Carolina\\nGlendale\\nChickamauga\\n63\\n65\\n83\\nPosterity will be gladdened when they read that the sons of\\nsuch heroes joined together to sustain the honor and dignity of\\ntheir great nation. And to-day as we look at the flag of our com-\\nmon country, and as we recognize that the honor of the nation is\\nthreatened, the sons of the boys who wore the blue and those of\\nthe boys who wore the gray will salute it and join us as we say\\nto that flag, in the language of Ruth:\\nWhither thou goest we will go; where thou lodgest we will lodge; thy\\npeople shall be our people, and thy God shall be our God. Where thou diest\\nwe will die and there will we be buried.\\n[Long and continued applause.]\\n\u00c2\u00a33.:6", "height": "3479", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "cuba00otey_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3479", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "cuba00otey_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n015 809 029 6\\nConservation Resources\\nLig-Free* Type I", "height": "3995", "width": "2470", "jp2-path": "cuba00otey_0012.jp2"}}