The bank mania... is raising up a moneyed aristocracy in our country which has already set the government at defiance, and although forced at length to yield a little on this first essay of their strength, their principles are unyielded and unyielding. These have taken deep root in the hearts of that class from which our legislators are drawn, and the sop to Cerberus from fable has become history. Their principles lay hold of the good, their pelf of the bad, and thus those whom the Constitution had placed as guards to its portals, are sophisticated or suborned from their duties.

I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of…

Put down all banks, admit none but a metallic circulation that will take its proper level with the like circulation in other countries, and then our manufactur…

The government of the United States have no idea of paying their debt in a depreciated medium, and... in the final liquidation of the payments which shall have…

I observe an idea of establishing a branch bank of the United States in New Orleans. This institution is one of the most deadly hostility existing against the …

In order to be able to meet a general combination of the banks against us in a critical emergency, could we not make a beginning towards an independent use of …

There is a cancer on the presidency.