Andrew Jackson: “Containing the information required by the resolution of the House of the 5th instant”

The paper money system of this country may be used as an engine to undermine your free institutions.

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

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.

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