...from its native tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, so Cuba, when forcibly disjoined from its unnatural connection with Spain, and incapable of...law of Nature cannot cast her off from its bosom. In 1859, a Committee of the Senate, reporting on a Bill for negotiating for the acquisition of Cuba, said...

...by the tempest from its native tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain and incapable...the same law of nature, cannot cast her off from its bosom."7 La preocupación por Cuba es, en efecto, una de las consideraciones principales que conduce...

...but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain . . . can gravitate only towards the North American Union,...which by the same law of nature cannot cast her off its bosom."5 The Platt Amendment was a constant reminder of such American statements of territorial...

...adjoining lands. In l823 he applied the law to Cuba. Tied to Spain by an "unnatural connection," the island "can gravitate only towards the North American Union,...law of nature cannot cast her off from its bosom." Adams and other devotees of the new physics sometimes likened adjoining territory to ripening fruit,...

...from its own unnatural connection with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can gravitate only toward the North American Union, which by the same law of nature cannot cast her off from its bosom.7 While annexation was considered a natural fate for Cuba, independence was not. The dominant...

...tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connexion with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can gravitate...the same law of nature, cannot cast her off from its bosom."6 Repeated and refined in the course of the nineteenth century, the notion of "political gravitation"...

...by the tempest from its native tree cannot choose but fall to the ground. Cuba. forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain. and...law of nature cannot cast her off from its bosom. By November. Adams still denied any intention of seizing either Cuba or Mexican territory. but argued...

...by the tempest from its native tree cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain and incapable...the same law of nature cannot cast her off from its bosom."4 Through the administrations of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Adams, US officials opposed...

...severed by a tempest from its native tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain, and...law of nature, cannot cast her off from its bosom" (quoted in Louis A Perez, Jr., Cuba and the United States: Ties of Singular lntimacy [Athens, Ga.,...

...severed by a tempest from its native tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain, and...the same law of nature, cannot cast her off from its bosom."7 North American designs on Cuba became a fixed feature of US strategic objectives early in...