William McKinley actually said...

Now I have the satisfaction to announce that the Congress just closed has reduced taxation in the sum of $41,000,000.

It became inevitable; and the Congress at its first regular session, without party division, provided money in anticipation of the crisis an...

Whatever remains unfulfilled is a continuing obligation resting with undiminished force upon the Executive and the Congress.

May it end without further bloodshed, and there be ushered in the reign of peace to be made permanent by a government of liberty under law!