Andrew Jackson: “In examining this question all local and sectional feelings should be discarded and the whole United States regarded as…”

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.

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

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

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