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John Tyler: “I feel it my duty to bring under your consideration a practice which has grown up in the administration of the…”

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I feel it my duty to bring under your consideration a practice which has grown up in the administration of the Government, and which, I am deeply convinced, ought to be corrected.
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John Tyler
Whig · Virginia

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Tyler expresses his concern about a problematic practice within government administration that needs correction.

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