On the recordDecember 1, 1839
The weight which presses upon a large portion of the people and the States is an enormous debt, foreign and domestic.
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presidency.ucsb.eduMartin Van Buren: “The weight which presses upon a large portion of the people and the States is an enormous debt, foreign and domestic.”
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