Andrew Jackson: “The inhabitants thereof have during the present year, in pursuance of the right secured by the ordinance, formed a…”

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

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

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.

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.