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Page 174 - ... McKinley's patience was exhausted by this 'disappointing reception' of his overture for an immediate peace, and he decided to turn the matter over to Congress forthwith. A long message, elucidating the situation and asking for power to intervene by force, if necessary, was sent to the Capitol on April 11. It is an interesting document, but quite as interesting is the light Mr. Long's journal throws upon its preparation.] Monday, April 4, 1898. — This evening at 8 o'clock there is a Cabinet...
Page 177 - On the other hand, there were many people in the country, who, failing to make allowances for Spain's characteristic aversion to action of any kind, blamed the President for dallying so long with the Government at Madrid. To a Boston editor who represented this point of view, Mr. Long wrote a remarkable confidential letter, defending his chief's policy. It is dated April 15, 1898. If the President's message had been as logical and as direct, it is not impossible that war with Spain would have been...
Page 168 - ... sending messages to Congress for immediate legislation, authorizing the enlistment of an unlimited number of seamen; and ordering guns from the Navy Yard at Washington to New York, with a view to arming auxiliary cruisers which are now in peaceful commercial pursuit. ... He has gone at things like a bull in a china shop...
Page 167 - When Long returned to the office he wrote in his journal that Roosevelt "in his precipitate way, has come very near causing more of an explosion than happened to the Maine.
Page 166 - He is so enthusiastic and loyal that he is in certain respects invaluable; yet I lack confidence in his good judgment and discretion. He goes off very impulsively, and if I have a good night tonight I shall feel that I ought to be back in the Department rather than take a day's vacation.
Page 167 - Having the authority for that time of Acting- Secretary, he immediately began to launch peremptory orders: distributing ships, ordering ammunition, which there is no means to move, to places where there is no means to store it; sending...
Page 190 - I learn to my utter amazement that it is to be made to-morrow, and not a word has been said to me about furnishing a convoy. I make a row, and the President gets General Alger and General Miles to meet him, and the thing is postponed, so that notice may be given me to furnish convoy. Our ships are all ready, but we must at least have notice when and where they are wanted.
Page 8 - Paul who was brought before the governor and accused of being a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition, and a ringleader of the sect of Nazarenes, etc.
Page 201 - The Secretary of War was complaining because we did not take the risk of blowing up our ships by going over the mines at Santiago. . . . Mahan at last sailed into him, telling him he didn't know anything about the use or purpose of the Navy, which rather amused the President, who always liked a little badinage.
Page 148 - He is also inclined to be a hero-worshiper, and extravagant in his praises when once launched upon adoration. Interesting himself in the story of Rufus Putnam, or some other worthy, he is inclined to put him on a pedestal higher than that of George Washington or Benjamin Franklin. After perusing the Bradford manuscript,1 he puts it next to the Scriptures; though why he stopped there, I am somewhat surprised. Evidently Shakespeare and Milton are entirely distanced. How quickly men grow old! But a...