Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1920 — Ostend Manifesto. [ARTICLE]

Ostend Manifesto.

On the eighteenth of October In 18M, the Ostend manfftoto was drawn up. The slavery leader# in the United States were In favor of annexing the island of Cuba. In President Polk's administration >100,000,000 was offered Spain as a purchase price, but refused, President Piercy sent Buehanan, United States minister at Lon Aon, to Ostend to confer on the question with Mason, minister to Paris and r Soule, minister at Madrid. The manifesto of Ostend was the result. This extraordinary document declared that the Union could not be secure unless Cuba was annexed, and, that Cuba, if not annexed, would become Africanixed and “endanger" the United States. The adyent of the Ovil war ended the controversy. --- 7*' .> A- • Z ’ >