Speech On the Disaster to the Battle Ship Maine in Habana Harbor House of Repre
Speech On the Disaster to the Battle Ship Maine in Habana Harbor House of Repre
Robert Gordon Cousins
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It will be an incidental legislative footnote to a page of history that shall be open to the eyes of this Republic and of the world for all time to come. No human speech can add anything to the silent gratitude, the speechless reverence, already given by a great and grateful nation to its dead defenders and to their living kin. No act of Congress providing for their needs can make a restitution for their sacrifice. Human nature does, in human ways, its best, and still feels deep in debt. Expres...sions of condolence have come from every country and from every clime, and every nerve of steel and ocean cable has carried on electric breath the sweetest, tenderest words of sym- pathy for that gallant crew who manned the Maine. Bat no human recompense can reach them. Humanity and time remain their everlasting debtors. It was a brave and strong and splendid crew. They were a part of the blood and bone and sinew of our land. Two of them were from my native State of Iowa. Some were only recently at the United States Naval Academy, where they had so often heard the morning and the evening salutation to the flag— that flag which had been interwoven with the dearest memories of their lives, Ihit had colored all their friendships with the lasting blue of true fidelity.
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