To have gone, on the other hand, a single step further for the purpose of wounding the pride of a Government and people with whom we had so many motives for cultivating relations of amity and reciprocal advantage would have been unwise and improper.
Jackson warns against taking actions that could unnecessarily offend a government with which the U.S. seeks to maintain friendly relations.
Share
More from Andrew Jackson
I am constrained to retain the bill, without acting definitively thereon
To the Senate of the United States: I transmit communications from the War Department relating to the treaty with the Sacs and Foxes recently submitted to the Senate.
It is impossible that any government can continue to exist upon any other principles.
Other voices in this conversation
