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The spirit of expansion and speculation was not confined to the deposit banks, but pervaded the whole multitude of banks throughout the Union and was giving rise to new institutions to aggravate the evil.

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Andrew Jackson's Eighth State of the Union Address (1836)

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Andrew Jackson's Eighth State of the Union Address
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1836

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