Grover Cleveland: “I return without approval Senate bill No. 465, entitled 'An act granting a pension to William Sackman, sr.'”

When we consider these provisions of the bill in connection with our long northern frontier and the boundaries of our States and Territories, often but an imaginary line separating them from the British dominions, and recall the friendly…

A radical departure from our national policy relating to immigration is here presented.

The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.

It is not claimed, I believe, that the time has come for the further restriction of immigration on the ground that an excess of population overcrowds our land.