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Martin Van Buren: “Our safest reliance for financial efficiency and independence has, on the contrary, been found to consist in ample…”

On the recordDecember 4, 1840
Our safest reliance for financial efficiency and independence has, on the contrary, been found to consist in ample resources unencumbered with debt...
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Martin Van Buren
Democratic · New York

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Fourth Annual Message

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