Andrew Jackson: “Their re-issue is sanctioned by no law and warranted by no necessity.”

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.

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

The duty of every government [is so] to regulate its currency as to protect this numerous class.