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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE PACIFICATION OF CUBA IN ITS LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS ANNUAL ADDRESS BEFORE THE INDIANA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION DE- LIVERED BY SENATOR WILLIAM LINDSAY, OF KENTUCKY, AT INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 10, 1900. I thank the Bar Association of Indiana for the invitation to meet the representative lawyers of this great state on this interesting occasion, and assure its members that I appreciate more than I can express the compliment paid me in my selection to make this year's annual address. Born in the Old Dominion, of which the Northwest Territory was once a dependency, and for nearly half a century a citizen of your sister state on the south side of the great river over which Indiana and Kentucky have concurrent jurisdiction, I feel that between myself and the bar of Indiana there exists a kind of geographical and professional relationship, and that in meeting you to-day I come not as a stranger, but as a neighbor, fellow-citizen and almost a kinsman. On the fourth day of July one hundred years ago, Indiana became an organized territory. It then contained less than five thousand free male citizens. To-day more than ten million prosperous and happy people make their homes within the boundaries established by the act of congress that laid the foundations and established the name for the magnificent state of which you are honored representatives. From the Ohio river on the south the newly created territory stretched northward to the British possessions, and on the west the Mississippi separated it from the then great Spanish North Amerlean empire. That empire has disappeared from the map of the world. Before the end of the first quarter of the present century Louisiana and Florida had passed to the United States, Mexico had asserted her independence, and the Central and S...