On the recordDecember 13, 1898
Sectional lines no longer mar the map of the United States.
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Speech Before the Legislature in Joint Assembly at the State Capitol in Atlanta, Georgia
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The peace which we are pledged to leave to the Cuban people must carry with it the guaranties of permanence.
We are now at peace with the world, and it is my fervent prayer that if differences arise between us and other powers they may be settled by peaceful arbitration and that hereafter we may be spared the horrors of war.
There is no legal obligation on the part of the United States, and no promise, express or implied, for the payment of such claims.