Andrew Jackson: “This convention has been ratified by me, agreeably to the Constitution, and will be immediately transmitted to Madrid…”

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 foundations must be laid in the affections of the people.

If we turn to our relations with foreign powers, we find our condition equally gratifying.