Ostend manifesto

The Ostend Manifesto was an 1854 document describing the reasons for the United States to buy Cuba. Cuba was to be added as a slave state of the United States.

Ostend Manifesto Media

Pierre Soulé, the driving force behind the Ostend Manifesto
James Buchanan is believed to have authored the document.
A political cartoon depicts James Buchanan surrounded by hoodlums using quotations from the Ostend Manifesto to justify robbing him. The caption below reads "The Ostend Doctrine".

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