Andrew Jackson: “The views then expressed remain unchanged, and as I think them peculiarly applicable to the present occasion I should…”

“The views then expressed remain unchanged, and as I think them peculiarly applicable to the present occasion I should feel myself required to decline any reply to the resolution before me were there not reason to apprehend that persons now in nomination before the Senate might possibly by such a course be exposed to improper and injurious imputations.”