. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . t of opinion pressing upon us. Thoughsmothered to comparative silence, we feel it like the hot breathof the slumbering volcano which precedes the rending upheaval;we know it is there. Though the tongue of the Nation is com-paratively mute on this subject, yet the mighty heart palpitateswith sympathy for the struggling patriots of the Queen of theAntilles, and we feel the beating strokes. Even the voices ofthose who tell us to wait, bear in their tones an indication thatb
. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . t of opinion pressing upon us. Thoughsmothered to comparative silence, we feel it like the hot breathof the slumbering volcano which precedes the rending upheaval;we know it is there. Though the tongue of the Nation is com-paratively mute on this subject, yet the mighty heart palpitateswith sympathy for the struggling patriots of the Queen of theAntilles, and we feel the beating strokes. Even the voices ofthose who tell us to wait, bear in their tones an indication thatbehind the words lie deep fountains of sympathy anxious to gushforth in words of cheer. Passing over some things which should come in, in chrono-logical order, we will take up the debate upon the Cuban ques-tion which was resumed again some three months later, whenGeneral Logan spoke a second time in support of his resolu-tion. A few passages from that speech will not be withoutinterest, now that the condition of down-trodden Cuba is againparticularly awakening the attention of the people of th§United States, He said:;. THE PERIOD OP RECONSTRUCTION. 583 I tell that gentleman [Mr. Butler] to-day that I have in my handa copy of their constitution, and it is, as General Banks says, asgood a constitution in some respects as that under which we twenty-fourth article of that constitution is in these words : All the inhabitants of the republic of Cuba are absolutelyfree. It is a constitution at war with slavery and despotism, and infavor of freedom. You talk to me about my sympathies. I tellyou I am in favor of this struggling people—in favor of liberty,and opposed to monarchy and slavery everywhere. And all ofus should be the same, if we were as we were a few months vote to-day for the independence or for the recognition of thefact that there is war in Cuba is a vote for freedom againstslavery, a vote in favor of republican principles and republicaninstitutions, and
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