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Andrew Jackson: “The United States ought not to indulge a persuasion that, contrary to the order of human events, they will forever keep…”

On the recordFebruary 21, 1836
The United States ought not to indulge a persuasion that, contrary to the order of human events, they will forever keep at a distance those painful appeals to arms with which the history of every other nation abounds.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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