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" ... there are laws of political as well as of physical gravitation; and if an apple, severed by the tempest from its native tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain, and incapable... "
Putnam's Monthly - Page 9
1853
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th ..., Volume 12

United States. Congress. House - 782 pages
...tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connexion with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can gravitate...merely touched upon to illustrate the position that, jn the war opening upon Europe, the United States have deep and important interests involved, peculiarly...
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Island of Cuba: Message from the President of the United States in Reference ...

United States. Department of State - 1852 - 68 pages
...tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connexion with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can gravitate...between France and Spain, these considerations would be prema~ ture. They are now merely touched upon to illustrate the position that, in the war opening upon...
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The Congressional Globe, Volume 27

United States. Congress - 1853 - 406 pages
...Cuba, forcibly disjointed from its own unnatural connection with Spain, and incapable of self support, can gravitate only towards the' North American Union,...law of nature, cannot cast her off from its bosom. "It will be among the primary objects requiring your most earnest and unremitting attention, to ascertain...
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Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 25

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 pages
...tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connexion with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can gravitate...law of nature, cannot cast her off from its bosom." — (Despatch to Mr. Nelson.) During this period, not only has Spain grown weaker, but all Europe has...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 43

1859 - 406 pages
...tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connexion with Spain, and incapable of selfsupport, can gravitate*...law of nature, cannot cast her off from its bosom. "The transfer of Cuba to Great Britain would be an event unpropitions to the interests of this Union....
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Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. Senate - 1859 - 362 pages
...tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connexion with Spain, and incapable of selfsupport, can gravitate...law of nature, cannot cast her off from its bosom. "The transfer of Cuba to Great Britain would be an event unpropitious to the interests of this Union....
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British and Foreign State Papers

Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - 1865 - 1468 pages
...tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connexion with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can gravitate...cast her off from its bosom. In any other state of thing3 than that which springs from this incipient war between France and Spain, these considerations...
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A Digest of the International Law of the United States: Taken from ..., Volume 1

Francis Wharton - 1886 - 876 pages
...but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain, aud incapable of self-support, can gravitate only towards...considerations would be premature. They are now merely tonched upon to illustrate the position that, in the war opening upon Europe, the United States have...
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A Digest of the International Law of the United States: Taken from ..., Volume 1

Francis Wharton - 1887 - 872 pages
...by the tempest from its native tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain, and...which springs from this incipient war between France aud Spain, these considerations would be premature. They are now merely touched upon to illustrate...
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The Yale Review, Volume 2

George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1894 - 480 pages
...by the tempest from its native tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain, and...law of nature, cannot cast her off from its bosom." 1 The immediate object in view was to prevent Great Britain from acquiring Cuba. Jefferson wrote to...
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