Veto Message
02/03/1887
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I hereby return without my approval House bill No. 8293.
The condition of affairs among the Five Civilized Tribes...has assumed such an aspect as to render it almost indispensab...
This government is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
We can not view the pending conflict without considering...our inevitably close relations to it.