And this is plain to every
thinking man, because they must see that Van Buren is as opposite to General
Jackson as dung is to a diamond. Jackson is open, bold, warm-hearted, confiding,
and passionate to a fault. Van Buren is secret, sly, selfish, cold,
calculating, distrustful, treacherous; and if he could gain an object just as
well by openness as intrigue, he would choose the latter.
SOURCE: David Crocket, The Life
of Martin Van Buren, p. 13
