The paper money system of this country may be used as an engine to undermine your free institutions.

At every hazard and by every sacrifice this Union must be preserved.

But amid this general prosperity and splendid success the dangers of which he warned us are becoming every day more evident.

There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision.

The duty of every government [is so] to regulate its currency as to protect this numerous class.

The foundations must be laid in the affections of the people.

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.

Local interests would still be found there, and unchastened ambition.

It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered.

The power, however, is in your hands, and the remedy must and will be applied if you determine upon it.

If we turn to our relations with foreign powers, we find our condition equally gratifying.

This Union must be preserved.

I think it my duty to acquiesce therein, and therefore I nominate Alcée La Branche, of Louisiana, to be chargé d'affaires to the Republic of Texas.

My reasons for this step may be fully understood

I am constrained to retain the bill, without acting definitively thereon

Amid the duties constantly pressing on me, to give the subject that deliberate consideration which its importance demands

I can not think it proper, in a matter of such vital interest, to approve a bill so liable to diversity of interpretations

To the House of Representatives: I transmit a letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, accompanied by various documents, in relation to a survey recently made of the mouths of the Mississippi River under a law of the last session of…