Andrew Jackson: “It is daily producing its beneficial effect in the respect shown to our flag, the protection of our citizens and their…”

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

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.