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So came a popular determination to exterminate, by State action, the second Bank of the United States.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “So came a popular determination to exterminate, by State action, the second Bank of the United States.”
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Beveridge notes a collective decision to eliminate the second Bank of the United States through state action.
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