A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1902: 1817-1833Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1897 |
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... extent of its duties , with the proper discharge of which the highest interests of a great and free people are intimately connected . Conscious of my own deficiency , I can not enter on these duties without great anxiety for the result ...
... extent of its duties , with the proper discharge of which the highest interests of a great and free people are intimately connected . Conscious of my own deficiency , I can not enter on these duties without great anxiety for the result ...
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... extent and duration . These resources , besides accom- plishing every other necessary purpose , put it completely in the power of the United States to discharge the national debt at an early period . Peace is the best time for ...
... extent and duration . These resources , besides accom- plishing every other necessary purpose , put it completely in the power of the United States to discharge the national debt at an early period . Peace is the best time for ...
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... extent of the States and territory which border on the waters emptying into the Mississippi and the Mobile . In this progress , which the rights of nature demand and nothing can prevent , marking a growth rapid and gigantic , it is our ...
... extent of the States and territory which border on the waters emptying into the Mississippi and the Mobile . In this progress , which the rights of nature demand and nothing can prevent , marking a growth rapid and gigantic , it is our ...
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... extent will not be necessary , and the expense attending them may be saved . A people accustomed to the use of firearms only , as the Indian tribes are , will shun even moderate works which are defended by cannon . Great fortifications ...
... extent will not be necessary , and the expense attending them may be saved . A people accustomed to the use of firearms only , as the Indian tribes are , will shun even moderate works which are defended by cannon . Great fortifications ...
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... extent offer equal inducements to improvements of this kind , nor ever were consequences of such magnitude involved in them . As this subject was acted on by Congress at the last session , and there may be a disposi- tion to revive it ...
... extent offer equal inducements to improvements of this kind , nor ever were consequences of such magnitude involved in them . As this subject was acted on by Congress at the last session , and there may be a disposi- tion to revive it ...
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