09/06/1888
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"A convention between the United States and certain other powers for the protection of submarine cables was signed at Paris on March 14, 1884, and has been duly ratified and proclaimed by this Governme..."
"The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individ..."
"The cruel treatment of inoffensive Chinese has, I regret to say, been repeated in some of the far Western States and Territories."
"The moral right and duty of the United States to assist in all proper ways in the maintenance of its integrity is obvious."