Carolina QuotesGentleman, I have had men watching you for a long time, and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the bread-stuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to route you out!
Andrew Jackson Carolinian
Source
1832. See The Minds of Men: An American Intelligence Brief by Eric Sanders. AuthorHouse, 2014. pp. 27-28
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- 1832
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- pp. 27-28
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