Andrew Jackson: “As but one copy of these acts was sent to me, I am prevented from communicating them by a joint message to the two…”

This Union must be preserved.

I can not think it proper, in a matter of such vital interest, to approve a bill so liable to diversity of interpretations

Local interests would still be found there, and unchastened ambition.

I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives a letter addressed to me on the 30th ultimo by the governor of the State of New Hampshire, communicating several resolutions of the legislature of that Commonwealth and claiming the…