NICHOLAS BIDDLE

As to mere power I have been for years in the daily exercise of more personal authority than any President habitually enjoys.

This worthy President thinks that because he has scalped Indians and imprisoned judges, he is to have his own way with the Bank. He is mistaken.

All the merchants may break, but the Bank of the United States will not break.

There are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture.

Let him say not one single word about his principles, or his creed—let him say nothing—promise nothing. Let no Committee or Convention—no town meeting ever extract from him a single word, about what he thinks now, or what he will do hereafter. Let the use of pen and ink be wholly forbidden as if he were a mad poet in Bedlam.

If any person employed in the General Post Office embezzles or secretes the smallest amount of property confided in him he may be publicly whipped and imprisoned for ten years—whilst the officer of a Bank in which the revenue of the U. S. is deposited ... may defraud the institution of millions and escape the criminal law of the United States

All the merchants may break, but the Bank of the United States will not break.

As to mere power I have been for years in the daily exercise of more personal authority than any President habitually enjoys.

Let him say not one single word about his principles, or his creed—let him say nothing—promise nothing. Let no Committee or Convention—no town meeting ever extract from him a single word, about what he thinks now, or what he will do hereafter. Let the use of pen and ink be wholly forbidden as if he were a mad poet in Bedlam.

If any person employed in the General Post Office embezzles or secretes the smallest amount of property confided in him he may be publicly whipped and imprisoned for ten years—whilst the officer of a Bank in which the revenue of the U. S. is deposited ... may defraud the institution of millions and escape the criminal law of the United States

This worthy President thinks that because he has scalped Indians and imprisoned judges, he is to have his own way with the Bank. He is mistaken.

There are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture.