The Government under which it is our happiness to live owes its existence to the spirit of compromise which prevailed among its framers; jarring and discordant opinions could only have been reconciled by that noble spirit of patriotism which prompted conciliation and resulted in harmony.
Tyler reflects on the foundational spirit of compromise that shaped the United States government.
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With equal, if not greater, propriety might the United States demand of other governments to surrender their numerous and valuable acquisitions.
The negotiation failed, however, in this particular, out of no disinclination to abide by the terms of the treaty on the part of the Zollverein, but from a belief that it would not fully comport with its dignity to do so.
I feel it to be my duty to communicate, for your consideration, the rejected treaty.
I also with equal strength resist the idea that it falls within the Executive competency to decide in controversies of the nature of that which existed in Rhode Island on which side is the majority of the people or as to the extent of the…
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