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Message to the Senate Transmitting a Treaty to Annex the Hawaiian Islands

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Feb 7, 1893

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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We have not stipulated in the treaty that we will permit merchandise to be moved through Canadian territory from one point of the United States to another at the will of the shipper

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No provision is made for a continued discharge of the duties of marshal and district attorney by the present incumbents.

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The question whether Article XXIX is still in force depends, so far as the construction of the treaty goes, upon the meaning of the words 'the term of years mentioned in Article XXXIII'

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