I herewith transmit to the Senate a report

The power, however, is in your hands, and the remedy must and will be applied if you determine upon it.

This Union must be preserved.

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.

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

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

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.

The victory of the injured would not secure to them the blessings of liberty.

But amid this general prosperity and splendid success the dangers of which he warned us are becoming every day more evident.

The duty of every government [is so] to regulate its currency as to protect this numerous class.

In your hands is rightfully placed the sovereignty of the country.

It is impossible that any government can continue to exist upon any other principles.

The foundations must be laid in the affections of the people.

The paper money system of this country may be used as an engine to undermine your free institutions.

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

My reasons for this step may be fully understood

I think it my duty to acquiesce therein, and therefore I nominate Alcée La Branche, of Louisiana, to be chargé d'affaires to the Republic of Texas.