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Origin and Conduct of Cuban Wars

Spanish Passion for Cuba--Growth of Cuban War Spirit--The Ten Years' War Compared with the Present--Gomez and Campos in Both--Tacon's Tyranny--Slavery Abolished--"Book of Blood"--Edinburg Review on War of '68-'78. It has seemed that in proportion as the Spanish have lost their colonies their passion for Cuba grew, until latterly Spain has seemed to live and die for the island, and the more certain appears the drift of destiny and the logic of history, that she and Cuba must part, that they are of incompatible temperament and irreconcilable policies, the more fierce and relentless is the determination of the people of the Peninsula to hold the Cubans, at all cost, for all time, under their sovereignty. The danger of Spain in letting go is the extent to which she has committed her life to the contest. If she will perish with the departure of her possession, it must be so because she will have it so.