Andrew Jackson: “I transmit to the House of Representatives, for their consideration, a petition to the Congress of the United States…”

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.

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.

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.