Third Annual Message
12/05/1831
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Amid the duties constantly pressing on me, to give the subject that deliberate consideration which its importance demand...
I herewith transmit to the House the copy of a letter addressed to me by the governor of the State of Maine on the 30th ...
The power, however, is in your hands, and the remedy must and will be applied if you determine upon it.
It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst fo...