With no causes at home or abroad to lessen the confidence with which we look to the future for continuing proofs of the capacity of our free institutions to produce all the fruits of good government, the general condition of our affairs may well excite our national pride.
Jackson reflects on the confidence in the future of the nation and its institutions.
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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.
But amid this general prosperity and splendid success the dangers of which he warned us are becoming every day more evident.
The victory of the injured would not secure to them the blessings of liberty.
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