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John Quincy Adams: “With the American Governments of this hemisphere we continue to maintain an intercourse altogether friendly, and between…”

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With the American Governments of this hemisphere we continue to maintain an intercourse altogether friendly, and between their nations and ours that commercial interchange of which mutual benefit is the source of mutual comfort and harmony the result is in a continual state of improvement.
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John Quincy Adams
Democratic Republican · Massachusetts

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Adams highlights the ongoing friendly relations and commercial exchanges with American governments in the hemisphere.

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