...State John Quincy Adams, the intellectual authorof the doctrine of Manifest Destiny, described Cuba as "an object of transcendent importance to the commercial and political interests of our Union." He joined many others in urging support for Spanish sovereignty until Cuba would fall into US hands...

...what the new President thought about the Caribbean island that John Quincy Adams had once declared "of transcendent importance to the commercial and political interests of our Union." And so, a few weeks after the 1896 election, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge asked him. Cuba "is very much...

...islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico still remain nominally, and so far really, dependent upon her . . . Cuba, almost in sight of our shores, from a multitude...the commercial and political interests of our Union . . . there are laws of political as well as physical gravitation; and if an apple severed by the tempest...

...islands are natural appendages of the North American continent, and one of them [Cuba] almost within sight of our shores, from a multitude of considerations,...importance to the commercial and political interests ofour Union — Its commanding position gives it an importance in the sum ofour national interests...

...solution to North American concerns. "Cuba, almost in sight of our shores," wrote John Quincy Adams, "from a multitude of considerations has become an object of transcendent importance to the political and commercial interests of our Union." Adams surveyed Cuba's commanding position with "reference...

...Appendix A): These islands are natural appendages of the North American continent, and one of them - almost in sight of our shores - from a multitude of...the commercial and political interests of our Union. Adams spelt out his personal belief that, if Spanish rule in Cuba were to come to an end, it must inevitably...

...Adams to the US minister to Spain, in which he wrote, "These islands from their local position are natural appendages to the North American continent,...become an object of transcendent importance to the political and commercial interests of our Union." Writings of John Quincy Adams, vol. 7, ed. WC Ford...

...Adams to the US minister to Spain, in which he wrote, "These islands from their local position are natural appendages to the North American continent,...become an object of transcendent importance to the political and commercial interests of our Union." Writings of John Quincy Adams, vol. 7, ed. WC Ford...

...their local position and natural appendages to the North American continent, and one of them, Cnba, almost in sight of our shores, from a multitude of...importance to the commercial and political interests of otir Union. Its commanding position, with reference to the Gulf of Mexico and .the West India seas,...

...minister to Spain, wrote that Cuba and Porto Eico were natural appendages to our continent, and Cuba had become " an object of transcendent importance to the...Its commanding position, with reference to the Gulf • See also John Quincy Adams' Diary, v, 38. of Mexico and the West India seas ; the character of...