Special Message
02/23/1890
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I have felt great interest and enthusiasm in the rebuilding of the American Navy.
He was a patriotic citizen, a lover of the flag and of our free institutions, an industrious and conscientious civil off...
Retrogression would be a crime.
No acquiescence in wrong, no tame and spiritless submission to injury, can be the basis of respect, and friendship must ...