Andrew Jackson: “It affords me peculiar satisfaction to state that the Government of Spain has at length yielded to the justice of the…”

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

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

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

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