But the infatuation which had been the exciting cause of General Jackson's first election to the Presidency would soon have evaporated under the multiplied evidences of an ill-regulated will, had it not been encouraged and supported by a…

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…

The acquisition of the province of Texas, and its introduction into the Union as a slave state, with the prospective design of forming out of its territories four or five slave states, was a project in which they knew Jackson's heart was…

But the most flagrant, act, and beyond all others characteristic of his indomitable tenacity of will, overleaping all the limitations of precedent and the constitution, was his removal, on his own responsibility, of the deposits from the…

The removal of the deposits, and the contract with the state banks to receive those deposits, he asserts were both unlawful; and the measure itself neither lawful nor just--an arbitrary act, without law and against law.

It is the abuse of the shelter of official station to circulate calumny with impunity.

He did not believe there was one member in the last Congress, who voted against re-chartering of the bank, who could have been induced to change his vote by corrupt means, had the president and directors of the bank been base enough to…

The corruptibility of Congress itself, and the foregone decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, were alike despised and degraded.

There is an air of conscious shamefacedness in the suppression of that which was so glaringly notorious; and something of an appearance of trifling, if not of mockery, in presenting a long array of reasons, omitting that which lies at the…

In vain had the laws cautiously stationed the Register, the Comptroller, the Treasurer, as checks upon the Secretary of the Treasury, so that the most trifling sum in the treasury should never be accessible to any one or any two men.

With a removal of the deposits and a transfer draft, millions on millions may be transferred, by the stroke of the pen of a supple and submissive Secretary of the Treasury, from place to place, at home and abroad, wherever any purpose…

First, that the contest for place and power, in this country, is a state of war, and all the emoluments of office are the spoils of victory.

The other, that it is the invariable rule of the President to reward his friends and punish his enemies.

In all my election contests, therefore, my character is at the mercy of the basest slanderer; and slander is so effective a power in all our elections, that the friends of the candidates for the highest offices use it without scruple.

The people can only act by the machinery of party.

For the share I had in those transactions,--and it was not a small one,--I hope God will forgive me, for I never shall forgive myself.

He believed the true course to be to let error be tolerated; to grant freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and apply reason to put it down.

He knew that it was difficult to use language on this subject which slaveholders would not deem disrespectful.

He was opposed to that act, because he did not think it proper that this traffic without our boundaries should be called piracy, while there was no constitutional right to interdict it within our borders.

He deemed it a fundamental principle that Congress had no right to take away or abridge the constitutional right of petition.

Slavery and democracy--especially a democracy founded, as ours is, on the rights of man--would seem to be incompatible with each other; and yet, at this time, the democracy of the country is supported chiefly, if not entirely, by slavery.

His own opinion was that one great difficulty under which the manufacturing interest of the country labors is a political combination of the South and the West against it.

The slaveholders of the South have bought the coöperation of the Western country by the bribe of the Western lands, abandoning to the new Western States their own proportion of this public property, and aiding them in the design of…

They are all urged through by the terror of those instruments of death, under the most affecting and pathetic appeals, from the constituents of the sufferers, to all the tender and benevolent sympathies of our nature.

These have been, through life, perpetual admonitions to do nothing unworthy of it.