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Martin Van Buren: Always aiming at an amicable adjustment of the dispute, both parties have entertained and repeatedly urged upon each…

On the recordFebruary 15, 1839
Always aiming at an amicable adjustment of the dispute, both parties have entertained and repeatedly urged upon each other a desire that each should exercise its rights, whatever it considered them to be, in such a manner as to avoid collision and allay to the greatest practicable extent the excitement likely to grow out of the controversy.
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Martin Van Buren
Democratic · New York

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