12/02/1844
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"I can not forego the occasion to urge its importance to the credit of the Government in a financial point of view."
"I therefore, in the spirit of conciliation, and influenced by no other desire than to rescue the great interests of the country from the vortex of political contention, recommend moderate duties, impo..."
"The credit of the Government may be regarded as the very soul of the Government itself--a principle of vitality without which all its movements are languid and all its operations embarrassed."
"Peace with all the world is the true foundation of our policy, which can only be rendered permanent by the practice of equal and impartial justice to all."