Andrew Jackson actually said...

I think it my duty to acquiesce therein, and therefore I nominate Alcée La Branche, of Louisiana, to be chargé d'affaires to the Republic of...

My reasons for this step may be fully understood

I can not think it proper, in a matter of such vital interest, to approve a bill so liable to diversity of interpretations

I am constrained to retain the bill, without acting definitively thereon