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Executive Order—Amendment of Civil Service Rules

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Feb 7, 1893

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 and dignified and yet firm way, to insist upon suitable redress.

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No acquiescence in wrong, no tame and spiritless submission to injury, can be the basis of respect, and friendship must be founded upon respect.

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The correspondence which accompanies the treaty will put the Senate in possession of all the facts known to the Executive.

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