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Andrew Jackson: “The antiquity of these claims, their high justice, and the aggravating circumstances out of which they arose are too…”

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The antiquity of these claims, their high justice, and the aggravating circumstances out of which they arose are too familiar to the American people to require description.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Jackson asserts that the American people are well aware of the longstanding and just nature of their claims against France.

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