Andrew Jackson: “Under these circumstances the subject is again respectfully submitted to the consideration of the House of…”

In your hands is rightfully placed the sovereignty of the country.

There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision.

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.

At every hazard and by every sacrifice this Union must be preserved.