To return Porto Rico to Spain, after she is once in our possession, is as much beyond the power of the President and of Congress as it was to preserve the peace with Spain after the destruction of the Maine in the harbor of Havana.
He asserts that the U.S. cannot return Puerto Rico to Spain after acquiring it, likening it to the impossibility of maintaining peace after the Maine incident.
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