The Declaration, the Constitution, the life of every signer, and every President's inaugural from Washington to Pierce — the patriotic shelf of an American parlor of 1855, complete in one volume.

Jackson's Farewell Address

3 pages in this part of The American's Own Book.

Jackson's Farewell Address

Fellow-Citizens:

Jackson's Farewell Address: Union

What have you to gain by division and dissension? Delude not yourselves with the belief that a breach once made may be afterwards repaired…

Jackson's Farewell Address: Bank

We are not left to conjecture how the moneyed power, thus organized, and with such a weapon in its hands would be likely to use it. The…

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