In my last annual message the follow
ing language was used: "Every patriotic
heart responds to tender consideration
for those who have served their country
long and well and reduced to destitution
and dependence not ns incident of their
service but with advancing age or through
sickness or misfortunes, and we are all
tempted by contemplation of such con
dition to
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and are often impatient of the limita
tions of public duty, yielding to none de
sire to indulge this feeling of consider
ation. I cannot rid myself of the convic
tion that if these ex-soldiers are to be re
-I’evcd. they and their cause are entit
led to an enactment under which relief
may be claimed as right, and that such re
lief should be granted under sanction of
law. not in evasion of it. Nor should
such worthy objects of care, all equally
entitled, to be remitted to the unequal
operation of sympathy or of the tender
mercy of the social and political in
fluence, with their unjust discrimina
tions.
I do not think that the objects, condi
tions and limitations thus suggested are
contained in tne bill under consideration.
I adhere to the sentiments thus hereto
fore expressed, but the evil threatened
by this bill is, in my opinion, such that,
charged with great responsibility in be
half of the people, I cannot do other
wise than to bring to the consideration
of this measure my best efforts of
thought and judgment, and perform my
constitutional duty in relation thereto,
regardless of all consequences except
such as appear to me to be related to
the best and highest interests of the
country.
Popular Names of Cities.
Baltimore —Monumental City
Boston—Modern Athens, Hub of the
Universe.
Brooklyn—City of Churches.
Chicago—Garden City.
