With no desire to establish arbitrary power in the person of the chief magistrate of the Union, the slave-holders of the South instinctively perceived the identity of Jackson's interests with their own, and gave zeal and intensity to his support.
He explains how Southern slaveholders aligned their interests with Jackson's, supporting his rise to power.
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There is no absolute monarch on earth who is not compelled, by the constitution of his country, to receive the petitions of his people, whosoever they may be.
Have we not tamely submitted for years to the daily violation of the freedom of the post-office and of the press by a committee of seal-breakers?
The power of the present Congress to enact laws essential to the welfare of the people has been struck with apoplexy by the executive hand.
That it has exposed in broad day the overruling influence of the institution of domestic slavery upon the history and policy of the Union.
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