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State of Connecticut
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
JOHN H. TRUMBULL
GOVERNOR
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NT is no small part of the honorable record of the
sº | United States that every war in which we have
º s: § been engaged has been a struggle, not of greed
Sºº) and aggression, but of defense or deliverance.
During the first century of our independence we fought for
the life and integrity of the Union and of our own people.
In 1898, for the first time, we were stirred to action in the
interest of an oppressed people whose claim on us was only
that of a common humanity. The Spanish War marks
the beginning of a new era of international morality. It
set new standards of responsibility. It gave new scope to
that national conscience which responded so gloriously to
an even greater wrong, twenty years afterwards.
Pursuant to the Statute which properly directs a day to be
set aside in memory of the tragic event which precipitated
the Spanish War, I designate Monday, February fifteenth
next, as
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and I direct the observance of the occasion in all of the
public schools of the State, by suitable exercises, according
to law. All of us should have in mind that in honoring
the first dead of the Spanish War, we commemorate also
those great principles to which their sacrifice is a splendid
and enduring monument.
Given under my hand and seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford, this twenty-sixth
day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six and of
the independence of the United States the one hundred and fiftieth.
By His Excellency’s Command:
Secretary.




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