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With full confidence in the justice of our cause and in the probity, intelligence, and uncompromising independence of the illustrious arbitrator, we can have nothing to apprehend from the result.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Jackson expresses confidence in the fairness of an arbitration process regarding international disputes.

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