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What kind of place is this?
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Where you almost mean what you say?
Where laws almost work?
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How can you live like that?
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"To His Excellency,
John Quincy Adams,
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"Massachusetts member,
House of Representatives.
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"I have understood from Mr Joadson
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"that you are acquainted with
the plight of the Amistad Africans.
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"If that is true, then you are
aware that we have been,
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"at every step, successful in
our presentation of their case.
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"Despite this,
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"and despite the unlikelihood of
President Van Buren's re-election,
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"he has appealed our most recent
favourable decision
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"to the highest court in the land.
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"As I'm sure you are well aware,