Second Annual Message
11/30/1890
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The provisional treaty, it will be observed, does not attempt to deal in detail with the questions that grow out of the ...
I have felt that it was not only essential as a matter of national defense, but that there was a prestige and influence ...
Such a possession would not consist with our safety and with the peace of the world.
I felt that the honor of our country and of the Navy had been touched, and that nothing was left to us but, in a quiet a...