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... island , and the port of San Juan , Porto Rico . Our troops are steadily closing around Santiago , being to - day within ... islands , making prisoners of the governor and the Spanish garrison . There was no defense . General Shafter ...
... island , and the port of San Juan , Porto Rico . Our troops are steadily closing around Santiago , being to - day within ... islands , making prisoners of the governor and the Spanish garrison . There was no defense . General Shafter ...
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... island that it is ill adapted to any successful em of guerrilla warfare , such as that which has so long dered Cuba a thorn in the side of Spain . Above all , the $ 1 size of the island is against it . Its entire length is but hun- dred ...
... island that it is ill adapted to any successful em of guerrilla warfare , such as that which has so long dered Cuba a thorn in the side of Spain . Above all , the $ 1 size of the island is against it . Its entire length is but hun- dred ...
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... islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico that the menacing movement against the peninsula has been pro- jected . Nothing could be more creditable to the president's con- siderate nature and thoughtful instincts than his insistence upon the ...
... islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico that the menacing movement against the peninsula has been pro- jected . Nothing could be more creditable to the president's con- siderate nature and thoughtful instincts than his insistence upon the ...
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... islands of the messengers of the Prince of Peace . Manila as a center is half encircled by a cordon of missionary stations . Japan is fifteen hundred miles to the north . Southward two thousand miles lies the great Australian continent ...
... islands of the messengers of the Prince of Peace . Manila as a center is half encircled by a cordon of missionary stations . Japan is fifteen hundred miles to the north . Southward two thousand miles lies the great Australian continent ...
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islands extending south and east of it all dotted with missions . And between Japan and Australia , half encircling the Philip- pines , are mission stations in Java and neighboring islands , in Singapore and Penang one the continent ...
islands extending south and east of it all dotted with missions . And between Japan and Australia , half encircling the Philip- pines , are mission stations in Java and neighboring islands , in Singapore and Penang one the continent ...
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Page 154 - A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Page 149 - WHEN Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there ! She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light ; Then, from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle-bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 100 - All persons who, either by active aid or by honest submission, cooperate with the United States in its efforts to give effect to this beneficent purpose will receive the reward of its support and protection.
Page 247 - He weren't no saint — them engineers Is all pretty much alike — One wife in Natchez-under-the-Hill And another one here, in Pike; A keerless man in his talk was Jim, And an awkward hand in a row, But he never flunked, and he never lied — • I reckon he never knowed how. And this was all the religion he had — To treat his engine well; Never be passed on the river To mind the pilot's bell; And if ever the Prairie Belle took fire— A thousand times he swore, He'd hold her nozle agin the bank...
Page 100 - It will be the duty of the commander of the forces of occupation to announce and proclaim in the most public manner that we come not as invaders or conquerors, but as friends, to protect the natives in their homes, in their employments, and in their personal and religious rights.
Page 163 - That the United States will occupy and hold the city, bay, and harbor of Manila, pending the conclusion of a treaty of peace which shall determine the control, disposition, and government of the Philippines.
Page 86 - Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: * lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
Page 100 - ... government become payable to the military occupant, unless he sees fit to substitute for them other rates or modes of contribution to the expenses of the government. The moneys so collected are to be used for the purpose of paying the expenses of government under the military occupation, such as the salaries of the judges and the police, and for the payment of the expenses of the army.
Page 264 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Page 247 - Through the hot black breath of the burnin' boat Jim Bludso's voice was heard, And they all had trust in his cussedness And knowed he would keep his word. And, sure's you're born, they all got off Afore the smokestacks fell, And Bludso's ghost went up alone In the smoke of the Prairie Belle. He...