The Blow from Behind: Or, Some Features of the Anti-imperialist Movement Attending the War with Spain, Together with a Consideration of Our Philippine Policy from Its Inception to the Present Time and the International and Domestic Law Affecting the SameLee and Shepard, 1903 - 147 pages |
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... Secretary of the Navy , sent another cable to Dewey directing him to assemble his fleet at Hong Kong at once , to retain the Olympia , which had been previously ordered back to San Francisco , and to be thoroughly prepared for offensive ...
... Secretary of the Navy , sent another cable to Dewey directing him to assemble his fleet at Hong Kong at once , to retain the Olympia , which had been previously ordered back to San Francisco , and to be thoroughly prepared for offensive ...
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... Secretary of State , puts it in a letter to Mr. De Onis , March 12 , 1818 : · " There is no principle of the law of nations more firmly established than that which entitles the property of strangers within the jurisdiction of a country ...
... Secretary of State , puts it in a letter to Mr. De Onis , March 12 , 1818 : · " There is no principle of the law of nations more firmly established than that which entitles the property of strangers within the jurisdiction of a country ...
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... Spain in this case ) , admits them ( foreigners ) , he engages to protect them as his own subjects , and to afford them perfect security , so far as depends on him , " Mr. John Quincy Adams , when Secretary of State , 13.
... Spain in this case ) , admits them ( foreigners ) , he engages to protect them as his own subjects , and to afford them perfect security , so far as depends on him , " Mr. John Quincy Adams , when Secretary of State , 13.
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... Secretary of State , in a letter to Mr. De Onis ( supra ) , March 12 , 1818 , states the principle in this way : " There is no principle of the law of nations more firmly established than that which entitles the property of strangers ...
... Secretary of State , in a letter to Mr. De Onis ( supra ) , March 12 , 1818 , states the principle in this way : " There is no principle of the law of nations more firmly established than that which entitles the property of strangers ...
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... Secretary of the Treasury , Mr. Lyman J. Gage , on the state of the finances for the fiscal year ended June 30 , 1900 55 CHAPTER VI ATKINSON'S RIDICULOUS FINANCE Edward Atkinson's financial prophecies proven ridiculous and full of ...
... Secretary of the Treasury , Mr. Lyman J. Gage , on the state of the finances for the fiscal year ended June 30 , 1900 55 CHAPTER VI ATKINSON'S RIDICULOUS FINANCE Edward Atkinson's financial prophecies proven ridiculous and full of ...
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Admiral Dewey Agui Aguinaldo Aguinaldo's army American soldier Anti Anti-Impe ANTI-IMPERIALISM Anti-Imperialist Anti-Imperialist League Atkinson says believe blow Boston Bryan capitulation cent citizens civil commission Congress Copperheads courts Cuba deficit Democratic party Dewey's discharge duty Edward Atkinson Empire ENDING JUNE 30 enemy estimates fact Filipino FISCAL YEAR ENDING force foreign Funston garrison Guy Howard Hannis Taylor Hong Kong honor hostile Imperialists inhabitants insurgents international law June 30 launch going let us look letter Lincoln Manila Bay McKinley MCKINLEY'S means ment miles military months nation natives Otis Philip Philippine Islands phlets pines pinos Porto Rico postal expenditures President protect rate of admission Rebellion republic revenue secretary sent ships shoot shows sick report Spain Spaniards Spanish army Spanish Empire speech square miles statement Surgeon surrender TARLAC territory thing tion treasury tropical United Vallandigham William McKinley
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Page 124 - Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?
Page 117 - So the multitude goes, like the flower or the weed, That withers away to let others succeed ; So the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has often been told.
Page 125 - Nor am I able to appreciate the danger apprehended by the meeting, that the American people will by means of military arrests during the rebellion lose the right of public discussion, the liberty of speech and the press, the law of evidence, trial by jury, and habeas corpus...
Page 9 - The authority of the legitimate power having actually passed into the hands of the occupant, the latter shall take all steps in his power to re-establish and insure, as far as possible, public order and safety, while respecting, unless absolutely prevented, the laws in force in the country.
Page 15 - But in the East, from the oldest times, an immiscible character has been kept up; foreigners are not admitted into the general body and mass of the society of the nation; they continue strangers and sojourners as all their fathers were - Doris amara suam non intermiscuit undam...
Page 131 - ... to devote their attention in the first instance to the establishment of municipal governments, in which the natives of the islands, both in the cities and in the rural communities, shall be afforded the opportunity to manage their own local affairs to the fullest extent of which they arc capable and subject to the least degree of supervision and control which a careful study of their capacities and observation of the workings of native control show to be consistent with the maintenance of law,...
Page 138 - ... labors all the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands may come to look back with gratitude to the day when God gave victory to American arms at Manila and set their land under the sovereignty and the protection of the people of the United States.
Page 131 - Wright of Tennessee, Hon. Henry C. Ide of Vermont, and Prof. Bernard Moses of California, commissioners to the Philippine Islands to continue and perfect the work of organizing and establishing civil government already commenced by the military authorities, subject in all respects...
Page 34 - I submit that for troops to enter under fire a town covering a wide area, to rapidly deploy and guard all principal points in the extensive suburbs, to keep out the insurgent forces pressing for admission, to quietly disarm an army of Spaniards more than equal in numbers to the American troops, and finally by all this to prevent entirely all rapine, pillage, and disorder, and gain entire and complete possession of a city of 300,000 people...
Page 9 - Although acquisitions made during war are not considered as permanent until confirmed by treaty, yet to every commercial and belligerent purpose, they are considered as a part of the domain of the conqueror, so long as he retains the possession and government of them. The island of Santa Cruz, after its capitulation, remained a British island until it was restored to Denmark.