| This cartoon shows American diplomat James Buchanan, second from right, being held up by robbers who quote the Ostend Manifesto as justification for taking his belongings. The manifesto was a dispatch, signed by Buchanan and other United States diplomats, declaring that the U.S. had the right to take Cuba from Spain by force if Spain refused to sell it. The manifesto was leaked to the press and used by the Republican Party as a campaign weapon against Buchanan’s Democratic Party. Buchanan later became the 15th president of the United States. |
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