The Story of Cuba

“The Story of Cuba is a tragedy.” Murat Halstead wrote it while the insurrection was still burning — four centuries of Spanish rule, the sugar and slave economy, Weyler’s camps, and an America deciding whether to intervene.

The Play of President Pierce for Cuba

9 pages in this part of The Story of Cuba.

The Play of President Pierce for Cuba

American Interest in Cuba and English Jealousy--The Famous Conference at Ostend in 1854, between Buchanan Mason and Soule, the Ministers to…

The Play of President Pierce for Cuba: Spain

It has always been the understanding that the ultimate manifest destiny of Cuba belongs to her people as our people, for the grasp of Spain…

The Play of President Pierce for Cuba: Louisiana

Not in this spirit, perhaps, but to this effect--in diplomatic phraseology--possibly Great Britain may reappear in the affairs of Cuba…

The Play of President Pierce for Cuba: Wilson

Vice-President Wilson, in his "Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America," introducing the episode of the Ostend Manifesto, a momentous…

The Play of President Pierce for Cuba: Marcy

Reference is had in Wilson's History to the ill-fated Lopez expedition, which was, of course, in the interest of the formation of more…

The Play of President Pierce for Cuba: Soule

Mr. Marcy, secretary of state, August 16, 1854, addressed Mr. Soule, minister to Spain, a letter stating he was directed by the president…

The Play of President Pierce for Cuba: Ostend

The Ostend conference was the substitute for the extraordinary commission. The one object was Cuba. The conference met at Ostend the 9th of…

The Play of President Pierce for Cuba: Island

The intercourse which its proximity to our coast begets and encourages between them and the citizens of the United States, has, in the…

The Play of President Pierce for Cuba: Douglas

At this time Stephen A. Douglas was the "Young America" and "manifest destiny" man of the democracy to succeed Pierce in the presidency…

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