Excerpt from Report of Mr. Mallory, of Florida, on the Relations of the United States With Cuba, 1851 Recent events beyond our own country, bearing directly upon Cuba and its trade, with the prospective and certain transit of a. Commerce of boundless wealth over the Tehuantepec route, throw around this subject an importance which it has never before pos sessed; and without investigating in detail their probable effects upon our relations with that island, the slightest political forecast will enable us to perceive the propriety and expediency of adopto ing any measure which will shorten the distance between its shores and its people and our own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.