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 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 slave states in the United States, and it was that influence that made the most of the tragedy. August, 1854, President Pierce instructed Secretary of State Marcy to cause a conference of the ministers of the United States of England, France and Spain--Buchanan, Mason and Soule--to be held with a view to the acquisition of Cuba, in this emulating the success of Polk with Texas, regaining imperial domains.

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