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John Quincy Adams: “To meet the temper with which this proposal was made with a cold repulse was not thought congenial to that warm interest…”

On the recordMarch 14, 1826
To meet the temper with which this proposal was made with a cold repulse was not thought congenial to that warm interest in their welfare with which the people and Government of the Union had hitherto gone hand in hand through the whole progress of their revolution.
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John Quincy Adams
Democratic Republican · Massachusetts

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