Benjamin Harrison actually said...

"The vast and increasing business of the Government has been transacted by the several Departments during the year with faithfulness, energy, and success."

"I speak of these matters with freedom because the credit of this good work is not mine, but is shared by the heads of the several Departments with the great body of faithful officers and employees who..."

"It being evident that the minister, Mr. Mizner, had exceeded the bounds of his authority in intervening, I was constrained to disavow Mr. Mizner's act and recall him from his post."

"The Conference of Brussels, to devise means for suppressing the slave trade in Africa, afforded an opportunity for a new expression of the interest the American people feel in that great work."