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1837 Martin Van Buren - Liberty Arsenal
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Nine years ago, I did my first State of the Union History blog post on George Washington and the creation of a well-regulated Militia. Washi...
1837 Martin Van Buren - Military Service Obligation for Academy Cadets
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Today, being appointed to and attending a US military service academy comes with the obligation and commitment to serve in the military. The...
1837 Martin Van Buren - Enlarge the Regular Army - Second Seminole War
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When James Monroe signed the Treaty of Moultrie Creek, the Seminole peoples were forced to give up all claims to Florida land and move into ...
1837 Martin Van Buren - Renewing the Preemption Land Act
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"In short the innocent should not suffer with the guilty.” Those were the words of Illinois Attorney General Jesse B. Thomas JR who wr...
1837 Martin Van Buren - US General Land Office - Need for Consolidation
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As of 1837, President Martin Van Buren stated that almost 70 million acres of public land had been sold the General Land Office (GLO), of w...
1837 Martin Van Buren - Reduce and Graduate the Price of Public Lands
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In 1865, Horace Greely was attributed with the famous phrase "Go West, young man". He wrote, "Washington [D.C.] is not a pla...
1837 Martin Van Buren - Stage Banks and the US Treasury
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"Indeed, I am more than ever convinced of the dangers to which the free and unbiased exercise of political opinion--the only sure fou...
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