The Letters of Wyoming: To the People of the United States, on the Presidential Election, and in Favour of Andrew Jackson

At the formation of our government, the best and happiest the world has ever seen, no controversy existed as to who should preside over the nation's destinies. One used with success, and at the head of a victorious army, was called to take charge of the government. He was a military man, and the nation, so far from apprehending a capacity or disposition on his part, to subvert the liberty he had acquired for his country, confided with one voice her destinies to this hands. Then was it, not an inquiry, who could write a paragraph with the greatest classical purity; or who, the most finished veteran at intrigue the question was, who is he, that, fearless of consequences, and regardless of danger, has breasted the storm in the hour of peril, and risked himself for the country. There was a virtue with the American people then, which would have bade them spurn from their confidence, that man, who, by any effort, however, disguised, could have manifested a wish to elevate himself to the Presidential chair.