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Andrew Jackson: “As by the terms of the bank charter no officer but the Secretary of the Treasury could remove the deposits, it seemed to…”

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As by the terms of the bank charter no officer but the Secretary of the Treasury could remove the deposits, it seemed to me that this authority ought to be at once exerted to deprive that great corporation of the support and countenance of the Government in such an use of its and such an exertion of its power.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Jackson argues for the removal of government deposits from the Bank of the United States to prevent its misuse of power.

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