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Source: Daniel Webster’s reply to Jackson’s veto message (July 11, 1832) [This message] extends the grasp of executive pretension over every power of the government…. It appeals to every prejudice which may betray men into a mistaken view of their own interests, and to every passion which may lead them to disobey the impulses of their understanding. It urges all the specious topics of State rights and national encroachment against that which a great majority of the States have affirmed to be rightful and in which all of them have acquiesced. It sows, in an unsparing manner, the seeds of jealously and ill-will against that government of which its author is the official head. It raises a cry that **liberty is in danger**, at the very moment when it puts forth claims to powers heretofore unknown and unheard of. It effects alarm for the public freedom, when nothing endangers that freedom so much as its own unparalleled pretences. This even, is not all. It manifestly seeks to inflame the poor against the rich; it wantonly attacks whole classes of the people, for the purpose of turning against them to prejudices and the resentments of the other classes. It is a state paper which finds no topic too exciting for it’s use, no passion too inflammable for it’s address and it’s solicitatiion

Webster says that the veto took away individual liberty. It also threatens the national government.