...disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over said islands except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its...government and control of the island to its people." The wrongs we would avenge are not new to Spain. By such cruelties she has always held her possessions....

...control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination whenever that is accomplished to leave the government and control of the island to its people. SPAIN CHARACTERIZED BY BUCKLE. Forty years ago the famous historian Buckle wrote the tollowing sentences,...

...directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States, and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia...Approved, April 20, 1898. DECLARATION OF WAR. CHAP. 189. — An Act Declaring that war exists between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain....

...directed and .empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States, and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia...government and control of the Island to its people. This resolution was approved by the Executive on the next day, April 2Oth. A copy was at once communicated...

...directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States, and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia...government and control of the island to its people." The House concurred in the Senate amendments, amending them, however, so as to strike out, first, the...

...directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States, and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia...government and control of the island to its people." This resolution was approved by the Executive on the next day, April 2oth. A copy was at once communicated...

...and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia of the several states to such an extent as may be necessary to carry these resolutions...government and control of the island to its people." SPANISH FORT AT CAVlTE. WAR DECLARED BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND SPAIN. On April 20th the United...

...and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia of the several states to such an extent as may be necessary to carry these resolutions...government and control of the island to its people." WAR DECLARED BETWEEN THE UNITED STATEvS AND SPAIN. On April 20th the United States government presented...

...Walthall Upon motion of Mr. Davis, an additional amendment was adopted, without dissent, declaring : — Fourth. That the United States hereby disclaims any...government and control of the island to its people. Then by a vote of 67 to 21 the resolutions thus amended were adopted. The House of Representatives...

...virtue they projected a fourth resolution into the ear of human selfishness and blood-guiltiness : "Fourth — That -the United States hereby disclaims...government and control of the island to its people." Men could not have bound themselves more inviolably to conduct the war to the end on these principles...