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President Zelaya agrees to have the present conflict between Nicaragua and Honduras arbitrated by the United States, if President Roosevelt accedes to his conditions. The people of Nicaragua, Zelaya says, are “in the same state as that of the American people when the S.S. Maine was blown up.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-13
Representative Williams sends a copy of a speech he delivered to Confederate veterans. Williams thinks President Roosevelt will gain an understanding of the Southern viewpoint if he reads this speech.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-30
The writer describes the success and hardships of the Allotment System, a program designed to deduct money from soldiers’ pay and have it sent home to their families during the Civil War. Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., W. E. Dodge, and Theodore Bailey Johnson were appointed commissioners by the President to visit regiments of volunteer soldiers in New York State.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1862-02-18
Cecil Clay summarizes his trip down the Magdalena River to Zaragoza, Colombia. He reflects on the mode of travel, hunting, and the effects of the civil war.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902
Theodore Roosevelt encloses a letter from Bishop Currier as well as a copy of his reply. Roosevelt thinks every objection obtained in recognizing Victoriano Huerta when Woodrow Wilson came into office now obtains with ten-fold greater force against recognizing Venustiano Carranza. The good that would have come of recognizing Huerta will not be achieved by recognizing Carranza. Roosevelt thinks if Wilson is right in his action now, he should have taken the action two years and a half ago, which would have saved two years and a half of “pointless bloodshed.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-10-25
Theodore Roosevelt invites William Astor Chanler to serve with him, if he is permitted to join the war. Roosevelt writes that they share the same beliefs including the belief that “there are many worse ways of ending than in battle.” He goes on to quote a Civil War poem about death in war.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-03-12
Colonel Ernesto Asbert states that the revolutionaries are not in arms for the purpose of waging capricious warfare, but that the attitude of the Cuban government, which is using the most reprehensible means to keep itself in power, has forced them to take this position. Asbert values efforts to establish peace that have arisen without further bloodshed. The revolutionists will maintain their position while parties attempt to find a solution, accepting with resignation the consequences this may bring. They prefer a new American intervention that will guarantee future legal elections.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-29
Joseph H. Rudrow thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his service as a politician. He recalls having voted for Abraham Lincoln in his concern for the unity of the country, and says that he has similar worries now due to the trusts and corporations at work in the nation, as they deprive workers of a fair share of the products of their labor.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-10
Adolph Von Haake asks President Roosevelt to intervene to allow Von Haake and his wife to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Von Haake’s application was denied because he served as a Volunteer, rather than as a Regular officer. He argues that since Arlington was designated as a National Cemetery because of the Civil War, soldiers who fought in that war have a right to be buried there regardless of whether they were Volunteers or Regulars.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-15
In a letter to the editor of The Sun, the author believes that American Governors must not revive the states rights’ argument that fueled the Civil War and asserts that secession is unlawful.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-18
A female figure labeled “Cuba,” holding the Cuban flag, is caught in a frying pan labeled “Spanish Misrule” that is being held above flames labeled “Anarchy” raging between fighting factions labeled “Insurgents” on the left and “Autonomists” on the right, on the island of Cuba.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-05-11
Daniel Edgar Sickles encloses a resume from the Times that editorializes his address on the Panama policy held at the Patricia Club. On the topic of American development, Sickles compares President Roosevelt to former presidents Thomas Jefferson and William McKinley. Sickles discusses political action regarding the Panama Revolution; Sickles suggests extending Panama borders and asserts the need for United States control of the canal between Colon and Panama.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-16
Rafael Uribe Uribe introduces himself as a representative of Colombia’s Liberal Party and a soldier of the rebel army. He explains his party’s opposition to the conservative regime and asserts that it fought against the extension of the concession of the Panama Canal to the French. He asserts that the liberals are fighting against tyrannical oppression and hopes that the United States will look upon them with sympathy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12