Andrew Jackson: “To the Senate: I transmit to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, complying as far as practicable with their…”

There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision.

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.

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

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