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Grover Cleveland: “I am convinced that such ratification will be of decided benefit to the Government, and that the agreement is entirely…”

On the recordFebruary 4, 1889
I am convinced that such ratification will be of decided benefit to the Government, and that the agreement is entirely free from any suspicion of unfairness or injustice toward the Indians.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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