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The sincere desire for peace by which I am animated led me to approve the proposal, already made, to submit the question which had thus arisen between the countries to arbitration.
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Johnson expresses his commitment to peace and arbitration in international disputes.
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My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.
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