Carolina QuotesIt becomes us, in humility, to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.
James K. Polk Carolinian
Source
First Annual Message to Congress (2 December 1845).
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- 1845
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