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.

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Outline History of Cuba from May, 1896, to January, 1897: Antilles

I do not know whether my country will approve of my statement that its honor will be heightened by a continuance of economic reforms that seem even more dangerous than seemed in its time, the emancipation of the slaves in Cuba, thus inaugurating a system of reforms that would strengthen our government in both the Antilles.

With patriotism such as ours no egoistic influence can overlook the interests of our country, and no privileges engendered by protection should disturb a peace that menaces our sovereignty over Cuba, or our national honor. A liberal government like ours, conceived by great men and progressive statesmen, even in the lines that have distinguished the United States above nations, cannot learn from outsiders its faults in governing the Antilles or submit to a mediator.

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