Feeling as our people feel, and speaking in their name, I at once sent a message to Commodore Dewey thanking him and his officers and men for their splendid achievement and overwhelming victory and informing him that I had appointed him an acting rear-admiral.
William McKinley: “Feeling as our people feel, and speaking in their name, I at once sent a message to Commodore Dewey thanking him and his…”
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Special Message to the Congress on the Conduct of the War in the Philippines
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