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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Mar 10, 1834

If they failed to give the required information or to take proper measures to obtain it, they would be removed by the Executive.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Mar 10, 1834

It is too obvious to be doubted that the misconduct of the corporation would never have been brought to light by the aid of a public proceeding at the board of directors.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Mar 10, 1834

In the present state of things, therefore, the corporation will be enabled effectually to accomplish the object it has been so long endeavoring to attain.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Mar 10, 1834

I can never suffer anyone to hold office under me who would connive at corruption or who should fail to give the alarm when he saw the enemies of liberty endeavoring to sap the foundations of our free institutions and to subject the free…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Mar 10, 1834

Aware as I now am of the dangerous machinations of the bank, it is more than ever my duty to be vigilant in guarding the rights of the people from the impending danger.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Mar 10, 1834

As the President is not responsible to them for the reasons which induce him to make a nomination, so they are not responsible to him for the reasons which induce them to reject it.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Mar 10, 1834

But the bank is believed to be now striving to obtain for itself the government of the country, and is seeking by new and strained constructions to wrest from the hands of the constituted authorities the salutary control reserved by the…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Mar 10, 1834

The necessary consequence will be that the bank will hereafter be without Government directors, and the people of the United States must be deprived of their chief means of protection against its abuses.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Mar 10, 1834

Every one of them, whether elected by the stockholders or appointed by the Government, who had knowledge of the facts and concealed them, would be justly amenable to the severest censure.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Mar 10, 1834

They prove that enormous sums were secretly lavished in a manner and for purposes that can not be justified, and that the whole of the immense capital of the bank has been virtually placed at the disposal of a single individual, to be…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Mar 7, 1834

I transmit herewith to the House a report from the Secretary of State, containing the instructions and other papers called for by the resolution of the House of the 14th ultimo, 'relative to the trade between the United States and the…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 11, 1834

To the House of Representatives:I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, in relation to the subject of a resolution of the 8th of this month.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 11, 1834

I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, containing the information requested by the resolution of the 14th ultimo, with the documents which accompanied that report.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Jan 24, 1834

I transmit herewith to the House of Representatives a letter from the Secretary of State, together with the accompanying papers, relating to a claim preferred to that Department, through the British legation at Washington, for…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Jan 24, 1834

Such legislative provision may be made by Congress in behalf of those interested as shall appear just and proper in the case.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Jan 21, 1834

To the Senate: I transmit to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, containing the information requested by their resolution of the 9th instant, with the documents which accompany that report.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Jan 5, 1834

I recommend to Congress to authorize by law that the articles already in the Department of State shall be delivered to the persons to whom they were originally presented, if living, and to the heirs of such as may have died.

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