12/05/1830
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"In compliance with the resolution of the Senate at its last session, requesting the President to cause to be prepared and laid before the Senate at the commencement of its next session a plan for equa..."
"I am fully sensible of the importance, as it respects both the harmony and union of the States, of making, as soon as circumstances will allow of it, a proper and final disposition of the whole subjec..."
"I felt myself, therefore, constrained to withhold from it my approval, and now return it to the Senate, in which it originated, with the reasons on which my dissent is founded."
"These ancient compacts are invaluable monuments of an age of virtue, patriotism, and disinterestedness."