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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... CONCLUSION. Cuba, the beautiful and fertile, is about to take her place among the nations of the earth. For centuries an oppressed colony, afterward, for a short period, under the protection of a sympathetic neighbor, she will soon become a free and sovereign state. To attain this high destiny has been the noble ambition of her patriots in every generation. The American people saw her struggling with a heroism born only of sublime ideals, against a relentless foe--military despotism--and went to her rescue. Their sons joined her own in freedom's battle and laid upon its altar many lives as a sacrifice for Cuba's independence. The birth of a nation is an event which must turn the eyes of all civilized peoples toward the new state. The romantic, but sad, history of this isle, more favored by nature than, perhaps, any other territory on the face of the globe, has appealed to the imagination of the poet, to the powers of the descriptive writer, to the pen of the historian, to the brain of the statesman, and to the heart of the world. On Monday, November 5, 1900, at twelve o'clock noon, there assembled in the city of Havana, Cuba, thirty-one delegates elected by the voters of the island for the purpose of framing a Constitution for the new state. Among these delegates are some of the most distinguished men of Cuba. All are men of ability and education. Will they give to Cuba a Constitution framed with a view to securing the greatest liberty to the individual consistent with the public welfare? Will they place the Constitution upon the solid rock of liberty, equality and fraternity? Will they so combine the ideal and the practical in the Constitution as to make this document a rule of lofty national conduct and at the same time an efficient...

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