"These gentlemen have been unfortunate in attacking you. You have
punished them in a most exemplary manner, without descending
to their vulgar level. You have exposed their ignorance of our
Revolutionary history, vindicated the character of your own State,
and brought forward, to their utter confusion, their own General
Jackson, to justify your remark that you would not voluntarily
do anything to promote the execution of what you deemed an
unconstitutional law. In a word, you have taught these orators how
much more effective is a _caustic civility_ of reply than coarse,
intemperate reviling."