a consequence of that policy
our manufacturing independence has been achieved. The United
States has become the foremost manufacturing nation in the
world. We are penetrating foreign markets, and have built
up a domestic commerce, the like of which has never been seen
before, and whose extent surpasses the power of human imagination
to conceive and almost of mathematics to calculate.

The temptation to extend our territory by unlawful exercise
of power over Cuba and San Domingo was resisted by the American
people. Cuba has been liberated and has taken her place among
the free nations of the world.

For the great offence committed against us by Great Britain
in the hour of our peril we have exacted apology and reparation.
There were not wanting counsellors enough to urge the American
people that we should nurse this grievance and lie in wait
until the hour for our revenge should come. But the magnanimous
American people preferred peace and reconciliation to revenge.
I ought to except this from the list of achievements due to
the Republican Party alone. In the matter of the British
Treaty, the Democratic leaders contributed their full share
to its successful accomplishment. Mr. Justice Nelson of
the United States Supreme Court was a distinguished member
of the Commission that made the Treaty.

Under General Grant's Administration treaties were negotiated
with nearly all the great powers of the world by which they
renounced the old doctrine of perpetual allegiance, and the
American citizen of foreign birth is clothed with all the
rights and privileges of a native-born citizen wherever on
the face of the earth he may go.

The vast number of the National offices has ceased to be a
menace to the safety of the Republic and has ceased to be a
source of strength to the Administration in power, or to
become the price or reward of political activity. The offices
of trust and profit now exist to serve the people and not to
bribe them.

The conflict between the Senate and the Executive which arose
in the time of Andrew Johnson, when Congress undertook to
hamper and restrict the President's Constitutional power of
removal from office, without which his Constitutional duty
of seeing that the laws are faithfully executed cannot be
performed, has been settled by a return to the ancient principle
established in Washington's first Administration.

The vast claims upon the Treasury growing out of the war have
been dealt