Special Message
03/23/1826
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It may be that in the lapse of many centuries no other opportunity so favorable will be presented to the Government of the United States to ...
The acceptance of this invitation, therefore, far from conflicting with the counsel or the policy of Washington, is directly deducible from ...
ThatAmericahas a set of primary interests which have none or a remote relation to Europe.
Nothing was ever lost by kind treatment.