Andrew Jackson: “I hope it is unnecessary for me to say that such a sacrifice will not be made through any agency of mine.”

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

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.

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