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John Tyler: “I may safely affirm that it never occurred to this Government that any new maritime right accrued to it from the…”

On the recordFebruary 26, 1843
I may safely affirm that it never occurred to this Government that any new maritime right accrued to it from the position it had thus assumed in regard to the slave trade.
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John Tyler
Whig · Virginia

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