THE WAR COLLEGE.-Designed for the proper preparation of young men for Army This building is beautifully situated on the point of the Arsenal grounde officers.

where the Potomac river and the Eastern Branch flow together.

THE PA. STATE
COLLEGE

A COMPILATION

OF THE

MESSAGES AND PAPERS

OF THE

PRESIDENTS

Prepared Under the Direction of the Joint Committee
on Printing, of the House and Senate,
Pursuant to an Act of the Fifty-Second Congress
of the United States

(With Additions and Encyclopedic Index
by Private Enterprise)

VOLUME IX

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BUREAU OF NATIONAL LITERATURE