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First minute of Cleveland's 1892 campaign speech. Begins with the music "Hail to the Chief". 1 minute, 21 seconds

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I pledge: we shall declare this nation is able to legislate [???] on every question without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on Earth. Upon that issue, we expect to carry every single state in this Union. [applause] I shall not slander the fair state of Massachusetts, nor the state of New York, by saying that the people of those states will declare our helpless [dependency?] as a nation, to attend to our own business. It is the issue of 1776 all over again. Our ancestors, were about three million, had the courage to declare their political independence of every other nation upon earth. Now we, their descendants, when we have grown to seventy million, declare that we are less independent than our forefathers? No! My friends, it will never be the judgement of this people. [applause]

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First minute of Cleveland's 1892 campaign speech. Begins with the music "Hail to the Chief". 1 minute, 21 seconds

If you can figure out the missing words in the following transcript or correct it, please do so:

My friends, we shall declare that ... legislate ... on every question without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.

Upon that issue we expect to carry every single state in this Union. I shall not slander the fair state of Massachusetts nor the state of New York by saying that the people of those states would declare our helpless diffidency as a nation to attend to our own business.

It is the issue of 1776 over again. Our ancestors, [who] were but 3 million, had the courage to declare their political independence of every other nation upon earth. Shall we, their descendants, when we have grown to 70 million, declare that we are less independent than our forefathers? No, my friends, it shall never be the judgment of this people.