[Rarebooks] FS: Woodrow Wilson and Warren Zevon
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WILSON, Woodrow. ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT WILSON AT THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD
BROOKLYN, N. Y. MAY 11, 1914. Services in memory of those who lost their
lives at Vera Cruz, Mexico. Washington: [Government Printing Office],
1914. First Edition. Printed wraps, 8 pages, including the covers.
SIGNED by the President at the end of the text. The United States
occupation of Veracruz began with the Battle of Veracruz and lasted for
seven months, as a response to the Tampico Affair of 9 April 9 1914. The
incident came in the midst of poor diplomatic relations between Mexico
and the United States and was related to the ongoing Mexican Revolution.
The Tampico Affair was set off when 9 American sailors were arrested by
the Mexican government for entering off-limit areas, a fuel loading
station. Although the sailors were released, the U.S. demanded both an
apology and a 21-gun salute. The apology was provided, but not the
salute, prompting Wilson to order the occupation of the port of
Veracruz. The Battle of Veracruz resulted in the deaths of 400 Mexican
soldiers, 800 civilians, and 19 members of the U.S. military. The battle
influenced several artists: a short story and an essay by Jack London,
Robert Olen Butler's novel THE HOT COUNTRY, and Warren Zevon's song
"Veracruz" on his album EXCITABLE BOY. Toning to text. Near Fine.
"We have gone down to Mexico to serve mankind, if we find out the way.
We do not want to fight the Mexicans. We want to serve the Mexicans, if
we can, because we know how we would like to be free and how we would
like to be served if there were friends standing by in such case ready
to serve us. A war of aggression is not a war in which it is a proud
thing to die, but a war of service is a thing in which it is a proud
thing to die.
"Notice how truly these men were of our blood. I mean of our American
blood, which is not drawn from any one country, which is not drawn from
any one stock, which is not from any one language of the modern world;
but free men everywhere have sent their sons and their brothers and
their daughters to this country in order to make that great compounded
Nation which consists of all the sturdy elements and of all the best
elements of the whole globe. I listened again to this list of the dead
with a profound interest because of the mixture of the names, for the
names bear the marks of the several national stocks from which these men
came. But they are not Irishmen or Germans or Frenchmen or Hebrews or
Italians any more. They were not when they went to Vera Cruz; they were
Americans, every one of them, and with no difference in their
Americanism because of the stock from which they came. They were in a
peculiar sense of our blood, and they proved it by showing that they
were of our spirit, that no matter what their derivation, no matter
where their people came from, they thought and wished and did the things
that were American; and the flag under which they served was a flag in
which all the blood of mankind is united to make a free Nation."
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