On no principle known to our institutions can he be required to account for the manner in which he discharges this portion of his public duties, save only in the mode and under the forms prescribed by the Constitution.
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The power, however, is in your hands, and the remedy must and will be applied if you determine upon it.
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.
The duty of every government [is so] to regulate its currency as to protect this numerous class.
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