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Ostend Manifesto

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Ostend Manifesto document drawn up in Oct., 1854, at Ostend, Belgium, by James Buchanan , American minister to Great Britain, John Y. Mason , minister to France, and Pierre Soulé , minister to Spain. William L. Marcy , Secretary of State under President Pierce, instructed Soulé to try to buy Cuba from Spain, but Soulé antagonized the Spanish by his political intrigues and aggressive threats (he issued an unwarranted ultimatum to the Spanish government on the Black Warrior affair). Pierce then ordered a conference of the three diplomats in Europe, all proslavery... Read more

Ostend Manifesto
...Soule—devised a plan to purchase or, if necessary, seize Cuba for the U.S. Publication of the aggressively worded document, and Soule's advocacy of slavery, caused Marcy to denounce it. Ostend Manifesto Ostend Manifesto Ostend Manifesto Read more

Pierre Soulé
...from Spain, he overreached himself, especially in drawing up, with James Buchanan and John Y. Mason, the notorious Ostend Manifesto . After its repudiation by the United States, he resigned (Dec., 1854). In the Civil War he served (1863-64) in the... Read more

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	Parallels between Iraq, Spanish-American War ; ...back years. In 1854, following a failed attempt to buy Cuba for $130 million, three American diplomats signed a manifesto in Ostend, Belgium, that stressed Cuba's critical importance and the need, as Pierre Soule put it, "to detach that island... Read more
	PROFILE: DAVID MILIBAND: From policy master to class warrior in one leap ; ...seriously about being an MP. But suddenly there was time; the manifesto, of which Miliband was the principal author, was finished...the Spanish Civil War. He was lent a copy of the Communist Manifesto by a close friend later hanged at Auschwitz. A year later, he walked with his father to Ostend as the ... Read more
	'Remembering the Maine': teaching about the Spanish-American War era after 100 years. ; ...attempted to persuade Spain to sell Cuba to the United States. When their efforts failed, they met in Ostend, Belgium, and issued the Ostend Manifesto, declaring that the United States should seize the island if Spain refused further American offers... Read more
	Obituary: Professor Ralph Miliband ; ...later hanged at Auschwitz, gave him a copy of the Communist Manifesto. Even though he was not yet fully aware of it, he had become...because of German bombardment. Ralph and his father walked to Ostend and boarded the last boat to Dover, which was packed with fleeing... Read more
	One Hundred Years of Arrogance ; ...annexed. Most Americans felt it was just a matter of time. Several attempts to do this occurred in the 1850s. The Ostend Manifesto was an unofficial memorandum by three American diplomats (including future President Buchanan) to buy Cuba from Spain... Read more
	`Fainting Frankie' wasn't all that bad: In New Hampshire, they're remembering the state's not-so-favorite son, Franklin Pierce. ; ...settled the dispute with Mexico. For ushering in the age of the perforated postage stamp. And let's not forget the Ostend Manifesto, which said the United States had the right to unilaterally seize Cuba from Spain. It was sort of the Bush Doctrine... Read more
	Impressive - to a point Happy 200th toour only president; Expansionist aims; 'Doughface'; Backlash; Home again ; ...expressing America's determination to purchase Cuba - and if that failed, to "wrest it" from Spain. The so- called Ostend Manifesto backfired. Northern opinion was so strongly negative the president had to retreat. Pierce continued to look to the... Read more
	SECRETARY OF THE NAVY ASSIGNS NEW SHIP NAMES ; ...Buchanan and Pierre Soul`e, ministers to Great Britain and Spain respectively, on Oct. 18, 1854, in issuing the famous Ostend Manifesto. This manifest justified seizing Cuba if Spain would not sell the colony to the United States. Mason died in Paris... Read more
	Shedding Lincoln's Mantle.(Republican Party has changed since Lincoln's time)(Government Activity)(Brief Article) ; ...s right to control her own person. The party that in its 1856 platform condemned as international brigandage the Ostend Manifesto, which called for the United States to wrest Cuba from Spain, now appears to view Cuba as by rights a wholly owned... Read more
	Letters.(OPINION) ; ...American colonizationists advocated. The city of Buchanan in Liberia is named after the man who masterminded the Ostend Manifesto in the 1850s, which sought to expand American slavery into Cuba. The ethnic Africans of Liberia - their story, their... Read more

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