public burden as may be necessary than in preserving the good order of
society and in the maintenance of well-regulated liberty.

While a forbearing spirit may, and I trust will, be exercised toward the
errors of our brethren in a particular quarter, duty to the rest of the
Union demands that open and organized resistance to the laws should not
be executed with impunity.

The rich inheritance bequeathed by our fathers has devolved upon us the
sacred obligation of preserving it by the same virtues which conducted
them through the eventful scenes of the Revolution and ultimately
crowned their struggle with the noblest model of civil institutions.
They bequeathed to us a Government of laws and a Federal Union founded
upon the great principle of popular representation. After a successful
experiment of forty-four years, at a moment when the Government and the
Union are the objects of the hopes of the friends of civil liberty
throughout the world, and in the midst of public and individual
prosperity unexampled in history, we are called to decide whether these
laws possess any force and that Union the means of self-preservation.
The decision of this question by an enlightened and patriotic people can
not be doubtful. For myself, fellow-citizens, devoutly relying upon that
kind Providence which has hitherto watched over our destinies, and
actuated by a profound reverence for those institutions I have so much
cause to love, and for the American people, whose partiality honored me
with their highest trust, I have determined to spare no effort to
discharge the duty which in this conjuncture is devolved upon me. That a
similar spirit will actuate the representatives of the American people
is not to be questioned; and I fervently pray that the Great Ruler of
Nations may so guide your deliberations and our joint measures as that
they may prove salutary examples not only to the present but to future
times, and solemnly proclaim that the Constitution and the laws are
supreme and the _Union indissoluble_.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WASHINGTON, _January 16, 1833_.
_To the Senate_:

In conformity with a resolution of the Senate of the 31st December last,
I herewith transmit copies of the instructions under which the late
treaty of indemnity with Naples was negotiated, and of all the
correspondence relative thereto.

It will appear evident from a perusal of some of those documents that
they are written by the agents of the United States t