Martin Van Buren: “Most of the arguments that dissuade us from employing banks in the custody and disbursement of the public money apply…”

I transmit to the House of Representatives, in compliance with their resolution of the 30th January last, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents.

It is by adopting and carrying out these principles under circumstances the most arduous and discouraging that the attempt has been made, thus far successfully, to demonstrate to the people of the United States that a national bank at all…

I deem it my duty to lay the proposition before Congress for such disposition as they may think fit to make of it

A rigid and persevering abstinence from all interference with the domestic and political relations of other States...