Such conduct is not merely an injury to individual creditors, but it is a wrong to the whole community, from whose liberality they hold most valuable privileges, whose rights they violate, whose business they derange, and the value of whose property they render unstable and insecure.
Van Buren emphasizes the broader societal impact of banks failing to meet their obligations, highlighting the harm to the community as a whole.
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