President Jackson and Amos Kendall, his Postmaster General, had openly set the Constitution at defiance by justifying the rifling of the mails and the suppression of the circulation of anti-slavery newspapers in the South.
Julian criticizes President Jackson and Kendall for undermining the Constitution in their actions against anti-slavery newspapers.
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