It would put the President upon very serious inquiry as to whether he should recognize the complaints of those people against their own government. In looking through our treaty with Spain I found ample reason for introducing this amendment in the form in which I have presented it. Thousands of refugees have come from Cuba to theUnited States. so many. indeed. that the President has mentioned it in his message almost in a complaining way. But they axe here. and amongst our people they are very welcome. and I suppose that if we had the power to extradite them. or if it was our duty to extradite a single one of them to Cuba. to answer his responsibility to the Spanish Government. the people of the United States would almost rise in revolt. before they would see it done. It would be a very much more distressing state of public sentiment than occurred many years ago when fugitive slaves were being captured in the Northeast. in Pennsylvania and other States. and returned to the South.
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