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Nor can I withhold the remark that its advantages contrasted with a bank of the United States, apart from the fact that a bank was esteemed as obnoxious to the public sentiment as well on the score of expediency as of constitutionality, appeared to me to be striking and obvious.
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John Tyler
Whig · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Tyler contrasts the advantages of his proposal with the perceived drawbacks of a national bank.

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