Third Annual Message
11/30/1879
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We hold it to be an incontrovertible principle that the Government of the United States may, by means of physical force,...
I recommend to Congress the adoption of these measures
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.
The most serious obstacle, however, to an improvement of the civil service, and especially to a reform in the method of ...