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Message to Congress Announcing the Death of General William Tecumseh Sherman

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Feb 14, 1893

Such a possession would not consist with our safety and with the peace of the world.

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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…

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I transmit herewith a communication of the 13th instant from the Secretary of the Interior

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Only two courses are now open--one the establishment of a protectorate by the United States, and the other annexation full and complete.

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