Special Message
05/20/1836
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Years since I stated to them my belief that if the States chose to extend their laws over them it would not be in the power of the Federal G...
It shall be lawful for the president to take such measures and to employ such military force as he may judge necessary to remove from lands ...
My opinion remains the same, and I can see no alternative for them but that of their removal to the West or a quiet submission to the State ...
To an independent and foreign people this would seem to be assuming, I should suppose, rather too lofty a tone--one which the Government wou...