Ulysses S. Grant: “Is there not a disposition on one side to magnify wrongs and outrages, and on the other side to belittle them or justify…”

I do not present these views now as a recommendation for a renewal of the subject of annexation, but I do refer to it to vindicate my previous action in regard to it.

Being a part of the United States, commerce between the island and mainland would be free.

The compulsory support of the free school and the disfranchisement of all who can not read and write the English language, after a fixed probation, would meet my hearty approval.

Foreigners coming to this country to become citizens, who are educated in their own language, should acquire the requisite knowledge of ours during the necessary residence to obtain naturalization.