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Andrew Jackson: “Since my message of the 20th of December last, transmitting to the Senate a report from the Secretary of War, with…”

On the recordJanuary 2, 1831
Since my message of the 20th of December last, transmitting to the Senate a report from the Secretary of War, with information requested by the resolution of the Senate of the 14th December, in relation to the treaty concluded at Dancing Rabbit Creek with the Choctaw Indians, I have received the two letters which are herewith inclosed, containing further information on the subject.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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