When this is done, all the strength that there is in our Navy will be developed and useful to its full capacity, and it will be powerful for purposes of defense, and also for offensive action, should the necessity for that arise within a reasonable distance from our shores.
Grant discusses the potential of the Navy once necessary repairs are completed, highlighting its defensive and offensive capabilities.
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Unhappily, however, this baneful influence has thus far succeeded in defeating the efforts of all liberal-minded men in Spain to abolish slavery in Cuba, and in preventing the promised reform in that island.
The delicate and complicated questions continually occurring with reference to naturalization, expatriation, and the status of such persons as I have above referred to induce me to earnestly direct your attention again to these subjects.
This implies a return to a specie basis, and no substitute for it can be devised.
Being a part of the United States, commerce between the island and mainland would be free.
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