Special Message
04/15/1880
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The United States can not consent to the surrender of this control to any European power or to any combination of Europe...
The Secretary of the Interior will cause the same to be noted in the General Land Office.
Politics, as well as religion, has its superstitions.
The objection to the bill, therefore, to which I respectfully ask your attention is that it gives a marked and deliberat...