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On the recordDecember 2, 1860
no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until within a very recent period.
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James Buchanan
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Fourth Annual Message to Congress on the State of the Union

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