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Andrew Jackson: “Every government and the people of all countries should feel it their highest happiness to enjoy an opportunity of thus…”

On the recordJanuary 17, 1837
Every government and the people of all countries should feel it their highest happiness to enjoy an opportunity of thus manifesting their love of each other and their interest in the general principles which apply to them all as members of the common family of man.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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