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John Tyler: “The public faith in this or in all things else ought to be placed beyond question and beyond contingency.”

On the recordFebruary 12, 1843
The public faith in this or in all things else ought to be placed beyond question and beyond contingency.
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John Tyler
Whig · Virginia

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