“Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.”
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It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
