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President Hayes's First Message to Forty Fifth Congress
The president greets Congress with gratitude for health and peace and outlines aims to pacify the nation, restore currency to a healthy standard, support specie payments, renew silver coinage, reform civil service, and maintain peace with foreign powers while managing Indian relations and frontier defense.
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