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Dec 30, 1896

I do hereby, in virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of the act of August 19, 1890, and by section 2 of the act of June 10, 1896, proclaim the 1st day of July, 1897, as the day on which the said act approved August 19, 1890…

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Dec 6, 1896

This government is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

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May 28, 1896

The Government has therefore once paid the amount of this bond to the party apparently entitled to it.

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May 28, 1896

I believe no greater danger confronts us as a nation than the unhappy decadence among our people of genuine and trustworthy love and affection for our Government as the embodiment of the highest and best aspirations of humanity.

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