I can not avoid congratulating you, and my country particularly, on the success of the efforts made during my Administration by the Executive and Legislature, in conformity with the sincere, constant, and earnest desire of the people, to maintain peace and establish cordial relations with all foreign powers.
Jackson congratulates Congress and the nation on the successful efforts to maintain peace and good relations abroad.
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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 paper money system of this country may be used as an engine to undermine your free institutions.
It is impossible that any government can continue to exist upon any other principles.
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