Andrew Jackson: “I herewith transmit to the Senate a report of the Postmaster-General, on the subject of the claims of Messrs. Stockton…”

The power, however, is in your hands, and the remedy must and will be applied if you determine upon it.

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

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.

It is impossible that any government can continue to exist upon any other principles.