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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Mar 3, 1837

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

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Mar 3, 1837

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.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Mar 3, 1837

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

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Mar 3, 1837

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

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Mar 3, 1837

It is impossible that any government can continue to exist upon any other principles.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Mar 2, 1837

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.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Mar 2, 1837

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

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Mar 2, 1837

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

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 23, 1837

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…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 19, 1837

In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th ultimo, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents by which it was accompanied.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 17, 1837

The Secretary of War ad interim will cause the proceedings of the court in the case of Major-General Scott, first above mentioned, with the documentary evidence referred to therein and a copy hereof, to be transmitted to Major-General…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 14, 1837

For the several reasons above assigned, the President disapproves the opinion of the court, and remits to it the proceedings in question.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 14, 1837

I herewith transmit to the Senate a report of the Postmaster-General, on the subject of the claims of Messrs. Stockton and Stokes, with a review of that report by the Solicitor of the Treasury, to whom, under a law of the last session of…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 13, 1837

I transmit herewith a copy of the instructions, prepared under my direction by the War Department, for the commissioners appointed by me, in pursuance of the request contained in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives on…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 12, 1837

I herewith transmit to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, embracing a copy of the correspondence requested by the resolution of the 7th instant, and such additional documents as were deemed necessary…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 10, 1837

I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives a letter addressed to me on the 30th ultimo by the governor of the State of New Hampshire, communicating several resolutions of the legislature of that Commonwealth and claiming the…

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