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The American people are in no mood to give them back to Spain, or to sell them, or to abandon them.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “The American people are in no mood to give them back to Spain, or to sell them, or to abandon them.”
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Reid asserts that the American public is not inclined to return the territories to Spain or abandon them.
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