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On the recordDecember 4, 1843
I can not, however, withhold the remark that its advantages contrasted with a bank of the United States, apart from the fact that a bank was esteemed as obnoxious to the public sentiment.
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John Tyler
Whig · Virginia

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Third Annual Message

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