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On the recordMarch 10, 1834
Nevertheless, the attitude in which certain vital interests of the country are placed by the rejection of the gentlemen now renominated require of me frankly to communicate my views of the consequences which must necessarily follow this act of the Senate if it be not reconsidered.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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