04/20/1888
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"This course of special legislation operates very unfairly."
"I can not see how the cause of death can be connected with his service or with the incapacity for which he was placed upon the retired list."
"I have considered the pension list of the Republic a roll of honor, bearing names inscribed by national gratitude, and not by improvident and indiscriminate almsgiving."
"I insist that the true soldier is a good citizen, and that he will be satisfied with generous, fair, and equal consideration for those who are worthily entitled to help."