Can any consideration of mere policy, of our own interests, or our own ease and comfort, free us from that solemn responsibility which we have voluntarily assumed, and for which we have lavishly spilled American and Spanish blood?
Reid argues that the U.S. cannot escape its moral responsibilities due to self-interest after the war.
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