05/16/2019
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"These papers were prepared at the close of the last session of Congress, at too late a period to be then acted upon."
"I now transmit to Congress copies of communications received from the governor of Georgia relating to that subject."
"I shall, indeed, in the first instance, consider the assembly as merely consultative."
"My first and greatest inducement was to meet in the spirit of kindness and friendship an overture made in that spirit by three sister Republics of this hemisphere."