We could not be without despising every instinct of the national life. without disowning every tradition of the national history. Yet. even under the pressure of popular feeling. we have scrupulously kept within the law of nations. not even sending a message of hope and courage to the struggling army of liberation in Cuba. We have citizens there whose property has been totally destroyed. their business ruined. and they themselves cast into the military prisons of Havana or left to beg among the miserable refugees about Matanzas. Yet. though we speak the Englfsh tongue. we have consented to negotiate for their relief and have feebly tried to do with diplomatic correspondence what other countries are accustomed to do with shot and shell. I do not complain.
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