Can a system be beneficent, wise, or just which creates greater anxiety for interests dependent on foreign credit than for the general prosperity of our own country and the profitable exportation of the surplus produce of our labor?
Van Buren questions the fairness of a financial system that prioritizes foreign credit over domestic prosperity.
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