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Excerpt from Cuba Before the United States<br><br>When, in the midst of the atmosphere of sympathy and good-will that prevails in this country for the Republic of Cuba, a strange voice is raised to attempt to smother this liberal sentiment, we can not but be affected as unexpectedly and disagreeably as if we heard a harsh discordant note in a melodious harmony. Then the astonished mind instinctively turns to seek the source of the discord, and to discover whence proceeds so un-American, illiberal, and unchristian a voice, that does not know how to sympathize, heart and soul, with the Cuban people in their struggle to force themselves from the grasp of Spain, whose tyranny they have suffered for more than three centuries.<br><br>If, upon investigation, it had been found that this voice was prompted by lucre, or based on mercantile calculations more or less selfish, the mind might perhaps have returned to its former tranquility and confidence, and, relying on the virtues of this great American people, overlooked and possibly forgot the painful interruption.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.