Shelby M. Cullom epub Speech of Hon. Shelby M. Cullom of Illinos: In the Senate of the United States, Friday, April 15, 1898 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Shelby M. Cullom of Illinos: In the Senate of the United States, Friday, April 15, 1898Some incurable vice in her organization, or it may be in the temperament of her people, neutralizes all the advantages Spain ought to derive from her stubborn hardihood, her nearly perfect capacity for endurance, and the som ber genius alike for war, for art. And for literature which have so often marked her sons. No race outside her own borders, even if Spanish by ori gin, has ever been able to endure her reign, and every race which has resisted has ultimately succeeded in withdrawing itself from her control.If permitted to pursue her pitiless course in Cuba, she would go on without remorse, and, if she could, she would exterminate the million and a half of patriots who deprecate her tyrannical poli cies and her cruel and bloody methods in peace as well as in war. Her ruthlessness is apparent in the conditions now existing in Cuba as related by four eyewitnesses who are members of this Senate.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.