Today the Federal Reserve Is the Bank of the United States, and There Is
No President Andrew Jackson
Today the Federal Reserve Is the Bank of the United States, and There Is
No President Andrew Jackson
“Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank
of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am
convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the
breadstuffs 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 families, and that would be my sin!
You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you
out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout
you out!” — Andrew Jackson, shortly before ending the
charter of the Second Bank of the United States.
(From the original minutes of the Philadelphia committee of citizens sent to
meet with President Jackson (February 1834), according to Andrew Jackson and
the Bank of the United States (1928) by Stan V. Henkels)
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