| United States. President - 1853 - 544 pagina’s
...he expressed an opinion against the constitutionality and expediency of the bank, and an assertion that it had failed in the great end of establishing a uniform and sound currency. As no intimation had been been given of an intention to apply for a renewal of the charter, and as... | |
| 1853 - 514 pagina’s
...well questioned by a large portion of our fellow-citizens; and it must be admitted by all, that it has failed in the great end of establishing a uniform and sound currency. Under these circumstances, if such an institution js deemed essential to the fiscal operations of'the... | |
| Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 762 pagina’s
...questioned by a large portion of our fellow-citizens ; and it must be admitted by all, that it has failed in the great end of establishing a uniform and sound currency." This is the clause which party spirit, and bank tacties, perverted at the time (and which has gone into... | |
| Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 784 pagina’s
...well questioned by a large portion of our fellow-citizens; and it must be admitted by all that it has failed in the great end of establishing a uniform and sound currency." This passage was the grand feature of the message, rising above precedent and judicial decisions, going... | |
| Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pagina’s
...questioned by a large portion of our fellow-citizens ; am. it must be admitted by all, that it has failed in the great end of establishing a uniform and sound currency. Under these circumstances, if such an institution is deemed essential to the fiscal operations of the... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1855 - 714 pagina’s
...he expressed an opinion against the constitutionality and expediency of the bank, and an assertion that it had failed in the great end of establishing a uniform and sound currency. As no intimation had been been given of an intention to apply for a renewal of the charter, and as... | |
| Andrew White Young - 1855 - 1032 pagina’s
...millions more. The committee controverted the statement of the president in his message, that the bank had " failed in the great end of establishing a •uniform and sound currency." He probably referred to the fact, that the bills issued by any one of its branches are not redeemed... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Hall - 1856 - 560 pagina’s
...the law creating the bank were well questioned; :md that it could not be denied that it had tailed in the great end of establishing a uniform and sound currency. This was a seasonable notice that questions of high import were to be raised against that powerful institution... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1857 - 702 pagina’s
...Jackson took strong ground against the renewal of the charter of the United States Bank," on the ground that it had failed in the great end of establishing a uniform and sound currency, and that such an institution was not authorized by the Federal Constitution. He again attacked the... | |
| Henry Clay - 1857 - 650 pagina’s
...questioned by a large portion of our fellow-citizens ; and it must be admitted by all, that it has failed in the great end of establishing a uniform and sound currency. " Under these circumstances, if such an institution is deemed essential to the fiscal operations of... | |
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