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 Democrats, at Ostend. The resulting manifesto strongly suggested that the United States should take Cuba by force if Spain refused to sell. Southerners, who had long feared that Cuba might become an independent black republic, applauded the document, but it was vigorously denounced by the free-soil press as a plot to extend slavery. Marcy immediately repudiated it for the U.S. government.

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books on: Ostend Manifesto  - 195 results

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A History of American Foreign Policy
Book by Alexander DeConde; Charles Scribners Sons, 1963
Subjects: United States--Foreign Relations
THE PRINCIPLES OF THE OSTEND MANIFESTO IN ACTION Here four thugs explain...little Frenchman, repudiating the Ostend Manifesto and told him to cease his...publication of a trimmed version of the Ostend Manifesto in the following March...
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Cuba and International Relations: A Historical Study in American Diplomacy
Book by James Morton Callahan; John Hopkins Press, 1899
Subjects: Cuban Question--1895-1898, Cuban Question--To 1895
...he must have chuckled over the Ostend document. Piatt said that Soule...he drew a heavy line across the Ostend manifesto, and Pierce nodded his acquiescence...prepared for him and the people at Ostend. He now invented a sugar-coated...
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Documents of American Diplomacy: From the American Revolution to the Present
Book by Michael D. Gambone; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: United States--Foreign Relations--Sources
...Office, 1937), 671-802. 27. OSTEND MANIFESTO 18 October 1854 In the aftermath...France, and Great Britain met in Ostend, Belgium, to discuss the possibility...and, thus, the so-called Ostend Manifesto became the source of...
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The Diplomatic Relations of Great Britain and the United States
Book by R. B. Mowat; Longmans, Green, 1925
Subjects: Great Britain--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Great Britain
...Paris, Soule from Madrid, met at Ostend for three days in October, 1854...held at Bale, is to take place at Ostend. It is at the desire of the Washington...Conference was the now celebrated Ostend Manifesto which was actually written at Aix...
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The United States of America: A History - Vol. 1
Book by Dexter Perkins, Glyndon G. Van Deusen; Macmillan, 1962
Subjects: United States--History
...than in the case of Cuba and the Ostend Manifesto. Cuba was badly governed by Spain...accredited for a conference together at Ostend, where they should consult and...Madrid. The three envoys met at Ostend in October, 1854, and, under...
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journal articles on: Ostend Manifesto  - 8 results

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Remembering the Maine: Teaching About the Spanish- American War Era After 100 Years
Journal article by Christopher C. Lovett, Karen Manners Smith, Harvey Foyle; Social Studies, Vol. 89, 1998
Subjects: History--Study And Teaching, Social Sciences--Study And Teaching
...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...
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'The Lincoln Colony': Aaron Columbus Burr's Proposed Colonization of British Honduras
Journal article by Janet L. Coryell; Civil War History, Vol. 43, 1997
Subjects: Burr, Aaron Columbus--Social policy, Colonization--Social aspects, Honduras--History
...natural law, govern tropical America, she touched on the Southern fears of "Africanization" that had led to the Ostend Manifesto of 1854, after word came that Cuban slaves would be freed and allowed to join the militia.(14) The reasons Carroll...
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The Limitations of Classroom Media: Ken Burns' Civil War Series as a Test Case
Journal article by Michael A. Morrison, Robert E. May; Journal of American Culture, Vol. 19, 1996
Subjects: American Civil War, Burns, Ken, Criticism, Documentary films, Educational materials, Television programs
...1850s. Similar cases could be urged regarding a number of other incidents unmentioned in the episode, such as the Ostend Manifesto (a controversial proposal that the United States seize the Spanish colony of Cuba, which had slavery, if Spain...
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Overcoming Dred: A Counterfactual Analysis
Journal article by Louise Weinberg; Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 24, 2007
Subjects: Abolition of slavery--Laws, regulations and rules, Dred Scott v. Sandford--60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857), Equal protection--Laws, regulations and rules, Equality before the law--Laws, regulations and rules, Missouri Compromise, 1820-1821--Laws, regulations and rules, Political questions and judicial power--Laws, regulations and rules, Slavery--Emancipation, Slavery--Laws, regulations and rules
...states. Southern hopes were focusing on the Caribbean. See H.R. Exec. Doc. No. 33-93, at 127 (1854) "Ostend Manifesto" (recommending the United States to offer Spain $130 million for Cuba, and, if spurned, to "wrest" Cuba from...
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Are Norwegians European? the Bohemians Say So!
Journal article by Anne G. Sabo; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 34, 2004
Subjects: Bjoerneboe, Jens, Bjornson, Bjornstjerne, European Union, Ibsen, Henrik, Life style--Analysis, Lifestyles--Analysis, Politics--Analysis, Society--Analysis
...money at Belgian casinos in Namur and Ostend, and was a constant vagabond in Norway...which they published bohemias infamous manifesto of nine commandments. The bohemians...and ironical spirit is evident in the manifesto, though a darker tone imbues it: 1...
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magazine articles on: Ostend Manifesto  - 2 results

 
 
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Shedding Lincoln's Mantle
Magazine article by Eric Foner; The Nation, Vol. 271, August 7, 2000
Subjects: Political parties--History, Republican Party--History, United States--Political aspects
...womans 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...
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A Man of Action: His Narration May Be Clunky and His Sex Scenes Almost Comical, but Alan Furst's Turns of Plot Can Leave a Reader Breathless
Magazine article by B.R. Myers; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 297, June 2006
Subjects: Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Authors--Works, Furst, Alan--Criticism and interpretation, Furst, Alan--Works, Writers--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Works
...Arriving in Belgium from Greece, the hero of Dark Star (1991) sojourns in Ostend, Antwerp, and Paris before traveling to Czechoslovakia. And those...is a contributing editor of The Atlantic and the author of A Readers Manifesto.


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encyclopedia articles on: Ostend Manifesto  - 9 results

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Ostend Manifesto
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OSTEND MANIFESTO document drawn up in Oct., 1854, at Ostend, Belgium, by James Buchanan , American minister to Great...three diplomats in Europe, all proslavery Democrats, at Ostend. The resulting manifesto strongly suggested that the...
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Mason, John Young
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1853 until his death he was minister to France, where with James Buchanan and Pierre Soule he drew up (1854) the Ostend Manifesto . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of...
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Cuba
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Lopez , achieved results. The desire of U.S. Southerners to acquire the island as a slave state also failed (see Ostend Manifesto ). Cuban discontent grew and finally erupted (1868) in the Ten Years War , a long revolt that ended (1878) in...
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SoulÉ, Pierre
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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...
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Buchanan, James
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...collaborated with Pierre Soule , minister to Spain, and John Y. Mason , minister to France, in drawing up the Ostend Manifesto (1854), which was promptly repudiated by the U.S. Dept. of State. His open advocacy of purchasing Cuba...
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