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“ What is the temper of feeling between the component parts of your own Southern population, between your Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, and Moorish Spanish inhabitants of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Missouri? between them all and the Indian savage, the original possessor of the land from which you are I scourging him already back to the foot of the Rocky Mountains! What between them all and the Native American negro of African origin, whom they are holding in cruel bondage?” ~
President John Quincy Adams House of Representatives: On the State of the Nation Delivered May 25th 1836
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