Andrew Jackson: “By our mails, whose speed is regularly increased and whose routes are every year extended, the communication of public…”

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.

Local interests would still be found there, and unchastened ambition.

If we turn to our relations with foreign powers, we find our condition equally gratifying.

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.