In transmitting to you this my fourth annual message it is with thankfulness to the Giver of All Good that as a nation we have been blessed for the past year with peace at home, peace abroad, and a general prosperity vouchsafed to but few peoples.
In his fourth annual message, Grant reflects on the blessings of peace and prosperity enjoyed by the nation over the past year.
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