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excuse and compensation were in demand; and the application consents with. Still
later, the course pursued by us in the matter of Venezuela is too much coolness in
memory to send to call more than a reference. These are all the matters of
history. When it failed to bring all desired weight our word?
Man was our position, our traditional policy and our record to the
starting some year what time it ends. Any advanced proposal admits, it is
believed, of dispute historically. In the events of the year 1898 it
it is not necessary to enter some detail. They is in the minds of everybody.
It is enough to say that the primary object for which we entered
on the late war with Spain to bring to an end the along it was and
together the bad record of Spanish rule in America. In to take the footsteps
held necessary Congress it went out of his/her way to effect this result,,
and it publicly put and formally on record his/her renouncement of some
intention to enter on a war of conquest affirming his/her determination,,
when the Spanish domination was ended, to leave the government of Cuba, and
presumably of some other islands likewise acquired, to the people
thereof. As an accident to our naval operations on the Pacific, the
island of Hawaii was attached then to the United States as a
additional-territorial possession, or coalings put, this that is effected from
an united decision of the two Houses of Congress, under the precedent of
1845 established in the case of Texas,--a method of procedure the
constitutionality of what to the duration was he/she formally called in question
from the State of Massachusetts, and against that it did the Mr. Webster
vigorous protest in the Senate. In to possess him so of Hawaii,
the approval of the native inhabitants was not considered necessary; us
it treated completely with a government of facto_ of oligarchical _de, while representing
the foreign element, mainly American there resident.
Shortly after the acquisition of Hawaii, us as the result of diamond
naval operations and the successes, acquired possession of the I bring of