Excerpt from Blue Jackets of 98: A History of the Spanish-American War
The Spanish war of 1898 was the result of inexorable causes which had their manifestations as early as the opening of the nineteenth century. The phrase "manifest destiny" has been sorely abused and degraded to a partisan cry, but half a century ago the destiny of the Spanish possessions in this hemisphere was manifest. The causes which impelled a peace-loving nation to declare war upon Spain in April, 1898, existed even in the time of Pizarro and of Cortez. Spanish cruelty and rapacity have ever been at odds with the dominant spirit of our western hemisphere, and the decree for Spain's expulsion from the West Indies was writ large in the history of the nineteenth century long before the destruction of the "Maine" and the starvation of the reconcentrados hastened its execution. A free and enlightened republic and a medi?val despotism are inevitably quarrelsome neighbours.
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