{"1": {"fulltext": "Author\\nTitle\\nImprint.\\nle 47872-3 m^O", "height": "3848", "width": "2543", "jp2-path": "speechondisaster00cous_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3760", "width": "2585", "jp2-path": "speechondisaster00cous_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "SPEECH\\nOF\\nHon. ROBERT G. COUSINS,\\nOF lOV/A,\\nON\\nTHE DISASTER TO THE BATTLE SHIP MAINE\\nIN HABANA HARBOR.\\nHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,\\nMA.RCH 21, 1898.\\nWA^SHINOTOX.\\n1S9S.", "height": "3577", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "speechondisaster00cous_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "g::021\\nSPEECH\\nc/ HON. PvOBEIlT G. COUSINS.\\nThe House having under consideration tho bill (H. R. 8G1S) for the reli of\\nj^ the sufferers by the doitruction of the U. S. S. J/a;ie in the harbor of llabaua.\\nCuba\\nMr. COUSINS said:\\nMr. Speaker: Whether this measure shall prevail, either in the\\nform in which it has come from the committee or in the form as\\nproposed in the amendment, it is both appropriate and just; but\\nhardly is it mentionable in contemplation of the gi eat calamity to\\nwhich it appertains. It will be an incidental legislative footnote\\nto a page of history that shall be open to the eyes of this Republic\\nand of the world for all time to come. No human speech can add\\nanything to the silent gratitude, the speechless reverence, already\\ngiven by a great and grateful nation to its dead defenders and to\\ntheir living kin. No act of Congress providing for their needs can\\nmake a restitution for their sacrifice. Human nature does, in\\nhuman ways, its best, and still feels deep in debt.\\nExpressions of condolence have come from every country and\\nfrom every clime, and every nerve of steel and ocean cable has\\ncarried on electric breath the sweetest, tenderest words of sym-\\npathy for that gallant crew who manned the Maine. Bat no\\nhuman recompense can reach them. Humanity and time remain\\ntheir everlasting debtors.\\nIt was a brave and strong and splendid crew. They were a part\\nof the blood and bone and sinew of our land. Two of them were\\nfrom my native State of Iowa. Some were only recently at the\\nUnited States Naval Academy, where they had so often heard the\\nmorning and the evening salutation to the flag\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that flag which\\nhad been interwoven with the dearest memories of their lives,\\nIhit had colored all their friendships with the lasting blue of", "height": "3547", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "speechondisaster00cous_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "true fidelity. But whether thej came from naval school or civil\\nlife, from one State or another, they called each other comrade\\nthat gem of human language which sometimes means but a little\\nless than love and a little more than friendship, that gentle salu-\\ntation of the human heart which lives in all the languages of\\nman, that winds and turns and runs through all the joys and\\nsorrows of the human race, through deed and thought anddreaip,\\nthrough song and toil and battlefield.\\nNo foe had ever challenged them. The world can never know\\nhow brave they were. They never knew defeat; they never shall.\\nWhile at their posts of duty sleep Im-ed them into the abyss; then\\ndeath unlocked their slumbering eyes but for an instant to behold\\nits di eadful carnival, most of them just when life was full of hope\\nand all its tides were at their highest, grandest flow; just when\\nthe early sunbeams were falling on the steeps of fame and flood-\\ning all life s landscape far out into the dreamy, distant horizon\\njust at that age when all the nymphs were making diadems and\\ngarlands, waving laurel wreaths before the eyes of young and eager\\nnature just then, when death seemed most unnatural.\\nHovering above the dark waters of that mj^sterious harbor of\\nHabana, the black- winged vulture watches for the dead, while\\nover it and over all there is the eagle s piercing eye sternly watch-\\ning for the truth. [Applause.]\\nWhether the appropriation carried by this resolution shall be\\nultimately charged to fate or to some foe shall soon appear.\\nMeanwhile a patient and a patriotic peoi^le. enlightened by the\\nlessons of our history, remembering the woes of war, both to the\\nvanqiiished and victorious, are ready for the truth and ready for\\ntheir duty.\\nThe tumult and the shouting dies\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThe captains and the kings depart-\\nStill stands thine ancient sacrifice,\\nAn humble and a contrite heart.\\nLord God of Hosts, be with us yet.\\nLest we forget\u00e2\u0080\u0094 lest we forget.\\n[Loud and long-continued apiilause.]\\n3141\\nO", "height": "3515", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "speechondisaster00cous_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3541", "width": "2142", "jp2-path": "speechondisaster00cous_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3842", "width": "2569", "jp2-path": "speechondisaster00cous_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n013 903 275 5", "height": "3869", "width": "2538", "jp2-path": "speechondisaster00cous_0008.jp2"}}