The extraordinary expenses to be incurred in the present year in supporting our foreign intercourse I find will require a provision beyond the ordinary appropriation and the additional $20,000 already granted.
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It is generally agreed that some cavalry, either militia or regular, will be necessary.
An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.
Those services, and greater had I possessed ability to render them, were due to the unanimous calls of my country, and its approbation is my abundant reward.
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