Benjamin Harrison actually said...

It is not important, perhaps, that the United States should in parting with these lands realize their value, but it is essential, I think, that favoritism should have no part in connection with the sales.

Context

Message to the Senate Returning Without Approval a Bill to Change the Boundaries of the Uncompahgre Reservation

06/16/1890

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