The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

The line casts “the people” as the productive majority—agriculturalists, artisans, and wage laborers—whose work undergirds the nation (“bone and sinew”). In Jacksonian political rhetoric, this kind of enumeration typically functions to legitimize democratic claims by appealing to ordinary white male citizens against concentrated privilege (banks, monopolies, entrenched elites). The emphasis on “equal rights and equal laws” frames liberty not as special favor but as uniform legal treatment, implying suspicion of policies that create unequal advantage. At the same time, the language reflects the era’s limits: Jacksonian appeals to the “great body” often presumed a restricted electorate and did not extend equal rights to enslaved people, most women, or many Native Americans.