That manufactures adequate to the supply of our domestic consumption would in the abstract be beneficial to our country there is no reason to doubt, and to effect their establishment there is perhaps no American citizen who would not for a while be willing to pay a higher price for them.
Jackson acknowledges the potential benefits of domestic manufacturing for the country.
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If we turn to our relations with foreign powers, we find our condition equally gratifying.
The power, however, is in your hands, and the remedy must and will be applied if you determine upon it.
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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