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

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

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.

This Union must be preserved.

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.

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

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

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.

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

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.

My reasons for this step may be fully understood

I can not think it proper, in a matter of such vital interest, to approve a bill so liable to diversity of interpretations

Amid the duties constantly pressing on me, to give the subject that deliberate consideration which its importance demands

I am constrained to retain the bill, without acting definitively thereon