Andrew Jackson: “The present tariff taxes some of the comforts of life unnecessarily high; it undertakes to protect interests too local…”

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

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

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

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