Veto Message
08/09/1888
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This government is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
I do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a public res...
We can not view the pending conflict without considering...our inevitably close relations to it.
The condition of affairs among the Five Civilized Tribes...has assumed such an aspect as to render it almost indispensab...