"Hello all. Before I begin, I’d like to give you a brief introduction of myself. I am Andrew Jackson, former president, war veteran, and founder of the Democratic Party. I am from both North and South Carolina, as I consider them both to be my home. I left home to fight in the Revolutionary War when I was thirteen and became a major general in the War of 1812. After becoming a Senator, I ran for president in 1828 and beat Adams in a landslide. I am known as the “people’s president,” and favor a strong central government while also fighting corruption. While I am mostly known for being a president of the United States, I am also a lawyer, which obviously makes me very familiar with the law. During my time of practice as a lawyer, I was able to earn a reasonable amount of money. With this money, I purchased a large plot of land which I have named “The Hermitage.” I use this farm to grow cotton for steady income. On this farm I have a relatively large number of slaves, 150, that I have spent much money on. 
For us in the South, slavery is a way of life. Slavery has been a generational institution in the South that has allowed prosperity and wealth to accumulate in these great states. These plantations have been built around the practice and if slavery is abolished, the American economy will take a severe blow. The practice is used all over the world, and if we stop it, there will surely be a financial scare in the country, which is the last thing we need as we recover from two wars that I fought in firsthand. Slavery allows the South to be so prosperous, because without it we would simply not have enough workers. The free labor allows plantation owners to increase production, which means more distribution for these products.
Without this boost, there will be shortages of various raw materials and goods such cotton, tobacco, and soybeans. The abolishment of slavery would lead to a drastic loss of production for farmers who would now have to pay for work. I only have roughly 150 slaves, and having to pay workers would change my entire business. There are plantation owners that own countless more slaves than me, and they would be hit incredibly hard. If there is a slowing or complete halt in the production of these raw materials, industries could be severely damaged from the effects of abolishment. The clothing industry would be short with cotton, cigarette and cigar companies would hurt greatly from this. All the good and honest people of this nation would be hit incredibly hard, while the rich and influential manufacturers grow in the north. The great common white man of this country will suffer while the blacks prosper and take from the whites. The inferior blacks and “red children” have already been a plague to this nation when they step out of line. This is why I relocated thousands of these “red” savages so the white man could have more land in which to prosper. 
Trail of Tears
Abolishing slavery would also mean that the money used to buy slaves would be wasted. Slaves are an investment, the money would be wasted on buying these farm tools. Since we are living in a new and growing country, this would be incredibly hurtful to plantation owners that are trying to make an honest living. Without slavery, the economy in the South simply cannot function. Any man that opposes slavery and our way of life must “atone for this wicked attempt with their lives.” “I can with truth say mine is a situation of dignified slavery.”
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