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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The Crisis in Cuba

This War not a Ten Years' War-The Fighting too Fast and Furious to Last-The Crisis Financial, Industrial, Social, Military and Political-General Lee's Important Functions-The Policy of the Administration-Senator White's Speech-James Creelman's Story of Massacre-The Power and Duty of the United States-The Mutual Hatred of the Creole and the Spaniard, and Influence of the Abolition of Slavery.

THIS will not be a ten years' war. It is too fast and furious to last so long. The tedious struggle from 1868 to 1878 was, in its most important manifestations, confined to two provinces, and those of the extreme east and of the least importance to agriculture and commerce of the six modern divisions of the Island.

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