The Republic has marched on and on, and its step has exalted freedom and humanity.
May it end without further bloodshed, and there be ushered in the reign of peace to be made permanent by a government of liberty under law!
We are now at peace with the world, and it is my fervent prayer that if differences arise between us and other powers they may be settled by...
Then I felt constrained to convene the Congress in extraordinary session to devise revenues to pay the ordinary expenses of the Government.
Whatever remains unfulfilled is a continuing obligation resting with undiminished force upon the Executive and the Congress.
The peace which we are pledged to leave to the Cuban people must carry with it the guaranties of permanence.
The prophets of evil were not the builders of the Republic.
I did all that in honor could be done to avert the war, but without avail.
Existing problems demand the thought and quicken the conscience of the country.
It became inevitable; and the Congress at its first regular session, without party division, provided money in anticipation of the crisis an...
Now I have the satisfaction to announce that the Congress just closed has reduced taxation in the sum of $41,000,000.
Considering it a matter entirely between that gentleman and his tenants, Messrs. Gardiner and Atkinson, I at that time refused to take any a...
Under the circumstances of this case I do not feel at liberty to approve the bill.
I return herewith, without approval, House bill No. 321.
I am constrained to withhold my approval from the bill.
To single out for payment a few claims of this large class to the exclusion of all others would, in my judgment, be unjust.
There is no legal obligation on the part of the United States, and no promise, express or implied, for the payment of such claims.
The measure of governmental liability is fulfilled by the passage of the act of March 3, 1891, and the prompt payment of the judgments rende...
