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8 Pol. Sci. Q. 1 (1893)

handle is hein.journals/pclscceqry8 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume VIII.] POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY. MR. MARCY, THE CUBAN QUESTION AND THE OSTEND MANIFESTO. I. THE difficulties growing out of the relations of the United States with Cuba, which confronted President Pierce in March, 1853, were inherited difficulties. During half a century Cuba had been on the order of the day. John Quincy Adams, Clay, Van Buren, Webster and Clayton, during their respective terms at the head of the Department of State, had all officially recorded the interest of the United States in the island, and on several occasions the government's unwilling- ness to see it pass into the hands of any European power other than Spain had been proclaimed. In 1825, moreover, when the English government suggested a joint declaration by Great Britain, France and the United States, that they would not permit Cuba to be wrested from Spain, Mr. Clay de- clined to enter into treaty stipulations embodying such a guar- antee. As to the acquisition of Cuba by the United States, Mr. Clayton took the position in 1849 that, after the rejec- tion of the proposition made by the late administration on this subject, should Spain desire to part with the island, a proposition for its cession to us should come from her. In 1851, our minister at Paris informed the Department of State that a treaty had been entered into between France, Spain and Great Britain to guarantee Cuba to Spain, and that England had ordered her vessels to proceed to that island to protect Cuba against unlawful invasion from the United States. Mr. Webster, then secretary of state, was at the time in Massachusetts. He wrote to the president expressing Marck, 1893. [ Number r.

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