{"1": {"fulltext": "J. independence 6+ Cub\\nfowlfopf", "height": "3620", "width": "2563", "jp2-path": "independenceofcu00grow_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n013 902 129\\nHollinger Corp.\\npH8.5", "height": "3756", "width": "2309", "jp2-path": "independenceofcu00grow_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "E 721\\nG89\\nCopy 1\\nINDEPENDENCE OF CUBA.\\nREMARKS\\nHON. GALUSHA A. GROW,\\nOK PENNSYLVANIA,\\nHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,\\n1\u00c2\u00b0\\n5^ b\\nMARCH 31, 1S98.\\nWASHINGTON.\\nI898.", "height": "3636", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "independenceofcu00grow_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "M J\\n;93\\niJP EEMARKS\\nr\\nV HON. GALUSHA A. GROW.\\ni, The House having under consideration the naval appropriation bill\\nMr. GROW said:\\nMr. Chairman: I am induced to trespass upon the attention of\\nthe committee for a few minutes by the remark of the gentleman\\nfrom Texas [Mr. Bailey] that if Congress had recognized the\\nCuban patriots as belligerents this war would have ended long\\nsince. This prediction of what inight have happened if something\\nhad been done that was not done leads me to claim the attention\\nof the House briefly.\\nBelligerency means what? That the Government recognizes\\ntwo parties in a contest as engaged in a war for supremacy. That\\nwould not relieve this Government from its obligation of strict\\nneutrality between them. It would have to maintain it the same\\nas it has been doing. Not a gun, not a man could go to help the\\nCuban patriots under belligerency that can not go to-day. They\\ncould have had no aid nor assistance more than they have had\\nduring this time that the Government has been watching these\\nmovements.\\nThis Government made England pay over $15,000,000 for not\\nobserving strict neutrality after she had recognized the belligerent\\nrights of the Confederates in our civil war, and we should have\\ninvolved ourselves in the danger of a war long before this had\\nbelligerency been recognized. Spain would stop an American\\nvessel to overhaul it to see if it had contraband of war, and the\\ndoctrine of this Government, proclaimed and maintained in the\\nsecond war of independence, was that the flag protected all over\\nwhich it floated and no right of search could be permitted to any\\nnation.\\nA chance shot would have opened all the bloody drama of a\\nwar long ago, in my judgment; and my prediction is just as good\\n2 3203", "height": "3151", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "independenceofcu00grow_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "J\\n^x as the prediction of the gentleman from Texas that the war would\\nhave been ended.\\nBelligerency, therefore, would have been of no advantage to\\nthe patriots on the Island of Cuba. I have regarded this question\\nfrom the first, Mr. Chairman, as simply resolving itself into one\\nthing in the end.\\nWhen the day should come when this Government would feel\\njustified in its own right and position on this hemisphere, in view\\nof the public sentiment of the Christian world, to recognize the\\nindependence of Cuba, then it would become our duty as Ameri-\\ncan citizens, our duty to the country and to the common cause of\\nliberty and the rights of humanity, to maintain and declare the\\nindependence of the patriots of Cuba; and that would be a warn-\\ning to Spain that she must withdraw her control over Cuba, and\\nif it was not done it might then be the duty of this Government\\nto intervene with military force.\\nThere was a time when the Spanish flag floated over more of this\\nhemisphere than the flags of all other nations, and she had on this\\ncontinent more territory than any other nation. But she has\\nlost it all. Cuba and Puerto Rico is all of this mighty posses-\\nsion that is left under her flag. The day is soon to come when\\nCuba must be free: and it is only a question of time. I would\\nsay to gentlemen you can have war any day. That question will\\nkeep. No danger of losing the opportunity. [Laughter.]\\nThat seems to be the trouble with our impatient friends on the\\nother side, that they are afraid of losing a chance for war. [Laugh-\\nter and applause.] Mr. Chairman, when the time comes for the\\nrecognition of the independence of Cuba, and I think it is near,\\nif war must come as a result, I think a little delay of the war\\nwould be better. If we are to begin the war in the rainy season\\nin Cuba, what would be the effect? The men sent to Cuba, not\\nacclimated, would, most of them, find a grave in the island in the\\nrainy season, the same as the Spanish soldier.\\nThe climate has killed more Spanish soldiers than the arms of the\\npatriots, and will continue to do so. God Almighty is on the side\\nof the patriots in Cuba, and their salvation will soon come through\\nthe aid of climatic influences. It is impossible for a nation to\\nbring soldiers enough 3,000 miles over the ocean to conquer a\\n3203", "height": "3433", "width": "1960", "jp2-path": "independenceofcu00grow_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "LiBKHKY Uh UUNUKtbb\\nll!!l lllll lllll Hill lllll lllll lllll Hill Hill Hill lllll III! Illi\\n013 902 129\\nbrave people, though they may be comparatively few in numbers,\\nas our fathers proved in the Revolution. From reliable informa-\\ntion from two hundred and fifty to sixty thousand Spanish sol-\\ndiers have been sent to Cuba.\\n[Here the hammer fell.]\\nMr. GROW. If the House will indulge me for a couple of min-\\nutes, I shall be through.\\nThere was no objection.\\nMr. GROW. Spain has sent of her sons already 250,000 or\\n260,000 to Cuba, and to-day, by the best information that can be\\nobtained, tliere are probably not to exceed 30,000 fit to take the field.\\nHow long would it take her to conquer Cuba?\\nThe climate has done its work and will continue to do its work;\\nand when the rainy season is over this year, Spain must send reen-\\nforcements again, as she has done every year heretofore, or aban-\\ndon the contest. In view of that state of things, the executive\\ndepartment of our Government can, by negotiation, settle the\\nquestion in a short time, so that Cuba shall be an independent\\nnation, and the great Republic will welcome the patriots of Cuba\\nas a sister republic.\\nIn the war between England and Spain, before our Revolution,\\nEngland attempted to wrest Cuba from Spain, and then of the\\nmen from Connecticut and Massachusetts who under the British\\nflag attempted to take Cuba, of all who landed upon the island,\\nonly a small remnant returned to their homes. The climate did\\nfor them what the climate has done for the Spanish soldier and\\nwould do for ours in the rainy season.\\nIn conclusion, I think the time is near at hand when this Gov-\\nernment should recognize the independence of this people as a\\nsister republic struggling as did our fathers for the great princi-\\nples of our own Declaration of Independence. When that is done,\\nthis Government must be ready to see to it that recognition secures\\nthe independence of this people. [Loud applause on the Repub-\\nlican side.]\\n3203\\nO", "height": "3151", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "independenceofcu00grow_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3433", "width": "1960", "jp2-path": "independenceofcu00grow_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n013 902 129 o\\nHollinger Corp.\\nP H8.5", "height": "3745", "width": "2355", "jp2-path": "independenceofcu00grow_0008.jp2"}}