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The important modifications of their Government, effected with so much courage and wisdom by the people of France, afford a happy presage of their future course, and have naturally elicited from the kindred feelings of this nation that spontaneous and universal burst of applause in which you have participated.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Jackson expresses optimism about the changes in France and the positive response from the American public.

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