ALS, retained draft, 1817 February 10 : Washington, to the President of the Senate [Js. R. Pringle] and Speaker of the House of Representatives [Thomas Bennett] of South Carolina.

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ALS, retained draft, 1817 February 10 : Washington, to the President of the Senate [Js. R. Pringle] and Speaker of the House of Representatives [Thomas Bennett] of South Carolina.

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Thanks the statesmen from South Carolina for kind words about his public service. "The period during which the Executive Dept. of the Union was committed to me, has comprized vicissitudes and struggles deeply interesting to the fortunes of our Country ... the happy result ... is due to the energies of a free people engaged in a just cause."

1 p. ; 25 x 20 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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