Anxious to not act with so much clemency as to encourage another outbreak on the one hand, nor with so much severity as to be real cruelty on the other, I caused a careful examination of the records of trials to be made.
Message to the Senate Responding to the Resolution Regarding Indian Barbarities in the State of Minnesota
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He has gone in again at Savannah, and I propose three cheers for his coming out gloriously.
And this result, so far from being bad faith to Vermont, is indispensable to keeping good faith with New Hampshire.
The expediency of any legislation upon the subject is submitted for your consideration.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.
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