Executive Order
01/03/1889
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The condition of affairs among the Five Civilized Tribes...has assumed such an aspect as to render it almost indispensab...
This government is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
The shocking features of the situation had been mitigated.
The experiment of substituting civilized methods for brute force as the means of settling international questions of rig...