Whitelaw Reid: “The American people are in no mood to give them back to Spain, or to…”

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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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Reid asserts that the American public is not inclined to return the territories to Spain or abandon them.

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Whitelaw Reid: “The American people are in no mood to give them back to Spain, or to sell them, or to abandon them.”