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 belonging to or secured by treaty to any Indian tribe any citizen who shall make a settlement thereon.
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The paper money system of this country may be used as an engine to undermine your free institutions.
I transmit, for your constitutional action, a report from the War Department, accompanied by a treaty with a portion of the New York Indians.
In compliance with a resolution of the Senate at their last session, I herewith transmit the inclosed documents, which contain all the information on the subject of the claim of the heirs of George Galphin within the power of the Executive.
To be instrumental in terminating the evils of civil war and in substituting in their stead the blessings of peace is a divine privilege.
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