Proclamation 441—Thanksgiving Day, 1899
10/24/1899
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We are reunited.
The peace which we are pledged to leave to the Cuban people must carry with it the guaranties of permanence.
The result of this battle was the freeing of our Atlantic coast from the possibilities to which it had been exposed from...
I return herewith, without approval, House bill No. 321.