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Andrew Jackson: “In the same manner have nearly all the predictions turned out in respect to the effect of the removal of the deposits--a…”

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In the same manner have nearly all the predictions turned out in respect to the effect of the removal of the deposits--a step unquestionably necessary to prevent the evils which it was foreseen the bank itself would endeavor to create in a final struggle to procure a renewal of its charter.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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Jackson reflects on the successful predictions regarding the removal of deposits from the Bank of the United States.

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