Andrew Jackson: “I can not, therefore, in taking leave of the subject, too earnestly for my own feelings or the common good warn you…”

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

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

If we turn to our relations with foreign powers, we find our condition equally gratifying.

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.