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.
Second Annual Message
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I have felt that it was not only essential as a matter of national defense, but that there was a prestige and influence for peace and good neighborhood between the nations of the earth in the completion and equipment of these great ships…
Only two courses are now open--one the establishment of a protectorate by the United States, and the other annexation full and complete.
The correspondence which accompanies the treaty will put the Senate in possession of all the facts known to the Executive.
The law creates two new officers, whose aggregate compensation may be $12,000 per annum, without, it seems to me, a justifying necessity.
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