Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Tennesseans to Their Country's Defense, And, the Deliverance of Cuba, Our Duty and Our Glory: Speeches of Hon. Henry R. Gibson, of Tennessee, in the House of Representatives, March 8 and April 27, 1898
Mr. Chairman: I rise to discuss not only the question of revenue to carry on the war with Spain, but also the causes that brought on this war.
Almost touching the shores of the United States is the Island of Cuba, the most beautiful island and the most fertile in all this West ern Hemisphere, containing when the present insurrection began about people and about square miles, just about the population and area of my State of Tennessee.
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