03/07/1844
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"The United States would be at all times indisposed to aggrandize itself at the expense of any other nation."
"Since the last adjournment of Congress the Executive has relaxed no effort to render indestructible the relations of amity which so happily exist between the United States and other countries."
"I shall be permitted to exchange congratulations with you, gentlemen of the two Houses of Congress, on these auspicious circumstances."
"It is time that this war had ceased."