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Excerpt from Our Nation and Her Neighbors
That Congress, in this headlong zeal for war, re¿ected the sentiment of vast numbers of our people is not to be denied. And while this pas sion is by no means unmixed with baser elements, yet the prevailing motive is a generous sympathy with a suffering people, and a righteous resent ment against. Cruelty and oppression. The pas sion might well have been better restrained, but it is not altogether unholy. At any rate it is the force that the Almighty is using to accomplish His purpose. Some may doubt whether any other force would have sufficed, but that must not be asserted. Doubtless if we had been a braver and a wiser people we might have done Spain more good and ourselves less harm. It must needs be that retributions come, and Providence must use such tools as men furnish Him; but if the hand that deals the blow is guided by brute passion more than by firm reason, neither the smitten nor the smiter gains the highest benefit.
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