Whitelaw Reid

By the Constitution a government is ordained and established 'for the United States of America,' and not for countries outside of their limits.

These States, this territory, and future States to be admitted into the Union, are the sole objects of the Constitution.

There is no express provision whatever made in the Constitution for the acquisition or government of territories beyond those limits.

The right to govern may be the inevitable consequence of the right to acquire territory.

The General Government is expected, however, to be controlled as to personal and civil rights by the general principles of the Constitution.

The personal and civil rights of the inhabitants of the Territories are secured to them, as to other citizens, by the principles of constitutional liberty which restrain all the agencies of government." (Murphy v.

The right claimed to land foreign goods within the United States at any place out of a Collection District, if allowed, would be a violation of that provision in the Constitution which enjoins that all duties, imposts, and excises shall be…

First, That the people of the island of Cuba are, and of right ought to be, free and independent.

Second, That it is the duty of the United States to demand, and the Government of the United States does hereby demand, that the Government of Spain at once relinquish its authority and government in the island of Cuba and withdraw its…

Fourth, That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island, except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination when that is accomplished…

The most interesting records of the great revolution just ending have seemed to me to be those portraying the spirit and bearing of the people throughout the South, just before and at the outbreak of the war.

It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.