ABSTRACT
The Island of Cuba cannot be laid claim to by the United States, because it is a boundary of the Gulf and of the Caribbean Sea. A more difficult problem than the annexation of Cuba as a Republic, has never presented itself to the minds of American statesmen. If the Island of Cuba is to enter into the system of the Free Republics, she must come in like Texas, as a sovereign State, by the strong desire and expressed will of her citizens. During the presidency of John Quincy Adams, the States of Central America, who had recently assumed their freedom, were meditating the conquest of the Island of Cuba, and her conversion into a member of their own system. Cuba, as is well said in the report of the committee of foreign affairs, is placed in the mouth of the Mississippi.
