I thought it extravagant as well as impolitic.

I thought the rights reserved to the Indians were about to be frittered away; and events prove that I thought correct.
"I had considered a treaty as the sovereign law of the land; but now saw it considered as a matter of expedience, or not, as it pleased the powers that be.

Georgia bid defiance to the treaty-making power, and set at nought the Intercourse Act of 1802; she trampled it under foot; she nullified it: and for this, she received the smiles and approbation of Andrew Jackson.

And this induced South Carolina to nullify the Tariff.

She had a right to expect that the President was favorable to the principle: but he took up the rod of correction, and shook it over South Carolina, and said at the same time to Georgia, 'You may nullify, but South Carolina shall not.' "This was like his consistency in many other matters.