"Without notice, unheard and untried, I thus find myself charged on the records of the Senate, and in a form hitherto unknown in our history, with the high crime of violating the laws and Constitution of my country."
"To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit for the consideration of Congress a report from the Secretary of State, and recommend that legislative measures may be taken to prevent the count..."
"Transmitting correspondence and papers relating to the claim of Don Juan Madrazp, a Spanish subject, for losses occasioned by acts of the United States and Georgia."
"Every one of them, whether elected by the stockholders or appointed by the Government, who had knowledge of the facts and concealed them, would be justly amenable to the severest censure."
"But the bank is believed to be now striving to obtain for itself the government of the country, and is seeking by new and strained constructions to wrest from the hands of the constituted authorities ..."
"The necessary consequence will be that the bank will hereafter be without Government directors, and the people of the United States must be deprived of their chief means of protection against its abus..."
"I can never suffer anyone to hold office under me who would connive at corruption or who should fail to give the alarm when he saw the enemies of liberty endeavoring to sap the foundations of our free..."
"If it shall be determined by the Senate that all channels of information in relation to the corrupt proceedings of this dangerous corporation shall be cut off and the Government and country left expos..."
"In the mode of obtaining the information, therefore, and in their efforts to put an end to the abuses disclosed, as well as in reporting them, the conduct of the late directors was judicious and prais..."
"Were they bound to disregard the call?"
"If they failed to give the required information or to take proper measures to obtain it, they would be removed by the Executive."