Speech at the Banquet in Atlanta, Georgia
12/14/1898
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I am constrained to withhold my approval from the bill.
To single out for payment a few claims of this large class to the exclusion of all others would, in my judgment, be unju...
We are reunited.
I did all that in honor could be done to avert the war, but without avail.