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On the recordDecember 4, 1840
Thus believing, it has been my purpose to secure to the whole people and to every member of the Confederacy, by general, salutary, and equal laws alone, the benefit of those republican institutions which it was the end and aim of the Constitution to establish...
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Martin Van Buren
Democratic · New York

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