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On the recordJanuary 4, 1888
The documents thus submitted exhibit extensive and entirely unjustifiable encroachments upon lands set apart for Indian occupancy and disclose a disregard of Indian rights so long continued that the Government can not further temporize without positive dishonor.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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