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would be another suspension, headed by the Bank of the United States, before we met again: at my return in November it was his first expression to remind me of that conversation; and to say it was the second time I had foreseen these suspensions, and warned him of them. He then jocularly said, don't predict so any more. I answered I should not; for it was the last time this Bank would suspend.
Still dominating over the moneyed systems of the South and West, this former colossal institution was yet able to carry along with her nearly all the banks of one-half of the Union: and using her irredeemable paper against the solid currency of the New York and other Northern banks, and selling fictitious bills on Europe, she was able to run them hard for specie – curtail their operations – and make panic and distress in the money market. At the same time by making an imposing exhibition of her assets, arranging a reciprocal use of their notes with other suspended banks, keeping up an apparent par value for her notes and stocks by fictitious and collusive sales and purchases, and above all, by her political connection with the powerful opposition – she was enabled to keep the field as a bank, and as a political power: and as such to act an effective part in the ensuing presidential election. She even pretended to have become stronger since the time when Mr. Biddle left her so prosperous; and at the next exposition of her affairs to the Pennsylvania legislature (Jan. 1, 1840), returned her assets at $74,603,142; her liabilities at $36,959,539, and her surplus at $37,643,603. This surplus, after paying all liabilities, showed the stock to be worth a premium of $2,643,603. And all this duly sworn to.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
FIRST SESSION TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS: MEMBERS: ORGANIZATION: POLITICAL MAP OF THE HOUSE
New Hampshire. – Henry Hubbard, Franklin Pierce.
Maine. – John Ruggles, Reuel Williams.
Massachusetts. – John Davis. Daniel Webster.
Vermont. – Sam'l Prentiss, Sam'l S. Phelps.
Rhode Island. – Nehemiah R. Knight, N. F. Dixon.
Connecticut. – Thaddeus Betts, Perry Smith.
New York. – Silas Wright, N. P. Tallmadge.
New Jersey. – Sam'l L. Southard, Garret D. Wall.
Pennsylvania. – James Buchanan, Daniel Sturgeon.
Delaware. – Thomas Clayton.
Maryland. – John S. Spence, Wm. D. Merrick.
Virginia. – William H. Roane.
North Carolina. – Bedford Brown, R. Strange.
South Carolina. – John C. Calhoun, Wm. Campbell Preston.
Georgia. – Wilson Lumpkin, Alfred Cuthbert.
Kentucky. – Henry Clay, John J. Crittenden.
Tennessee. – Hugh L. White, Alex. Anderson.
Ohio. – William Allen, Benjamin Tappan.
Indiana. – Oliver H. Smith, Albert S. White.
Mississippi. – Robert J. Walker, John Henderson.
Louisiana. – Robert C. Nicholas, Alexander
Mouton.
Illinois. – John M. Robinson, Richard M.
Young.
Alabama. – Clement C. Clay, Wm. Rufus
King.
Missouri. – Thomas H. Benton, Lewis F.
Linn.
Arkansas. – William S. Fulton, Ambrose
Sevier.
Michigan. – John Norvell, Augustus S. Porter.
Maine. – Hugh J. Anderson, Nathan Clifford,
Thomas Davee, George Evans, Joshua A. Lowell,
Virgil D. Parris, Benjamin Randall, Albert
Smith.
New Hampshire. – Charles G. Atherton,
Edmund Burke, Ira A. Eastman, Tristram Shaw,
Jared W. Williams.
Connecticut. – Joseph Trumbull, William
L. Storrs, Thomas W. Williams, Thomas B.
Osborne, Truman Smith, John H. Brockway.
Vermont. – Hiland Hall, William Slade,
Horace Everett, John Smith, Isaac Fletcher.
Massachusetts. – Abbot Lawrence, Leverett
Saltonstall, Caleb Cushing, William Parmenter,
Levi Lincoln, [Vacancy,] George N. Briggs,
William B. Calhoun, William S. Hastings, Henry
Williams, John Reed, John Quincy Adams.
Rhode Island. – Chosen by general ticket.
Joseph L. Tillinghast, Robert B. Cranston.
New York. – Thomas B. Jackson, James de la Montayne, Ogden Hoffman, Edward Curtis,
Moses H. Grinnell, James Monroe, Gouverneur
Kemble, Charles Johnson, Nathaniel Jones,
Rufus Palen, Aaron Vanderpoel, John Ely,
Hiram P. Hunt, Daniel D. Barnard, Anson
Brown, David Russell, Augustus C. Hand, John
Fine, Peter J. Wagoner, Andrew W. Doig,
John G. Floyd, David P. Brewster, Thomas C.
Crittenden, John H. Prentiss, Judson Allen,
John C. Clark, S. B. Leonard, Amasa Dana,
Edward Rogers, Nehemiah H. Earl, Christopher
Morgan, Theron R. Strong, Francis P. Granger,
Meredith Mallory, Seth M. Gates, Luther C.
Peck, Richard P. Marvin, Millard Fillmore,
Charles F. Mitchell.
New Jersey. – Joseph B. Randolph, Peter
D. Vroom, Philemon Dickerson, William R.
Cooper, Daniel B. Ryall, Joseph Kille.
Pennsylvania. – William Beatty, Richard
Biddle, James Cooper, Edward Davies, John
Davis, John Edwards, Joseph Fornance, John
Galbraith, James Gerry, Robert H. Hammond,
Thomas Henry, Enos Hook, Francis James,
George M. Keim, Isaac Leet, Albert G. Marchand,
Samuel W. Morris, George McCulloch,
Charles Naylor, Peter Newhard, Charles Ogle,
Lemuel Paynter, David Petrikin, William S.
Ramsey, John Sergeant, William Simonton,
George W. Toland, David D. Wagener.
Delaware. – Thomas Robinson, jr.
Maryland. – James Carroll, John Dennis,
Solomon Hillen, jr., Daniel Jenifer, William
Cost Johnson, Francis Thomas, Philip F.
Thomas, John T. H. Worthington.
Virginia. – Linn Banks, Andrew Beirne,
John M. Botts, Walter Coles, Robert Craig,
George C. Dromgoole, James Garland, William
L. Goggin, John Hill, Joel Holleman, George
W. Hopkins, Robert M. T. Hunter, Joseph
Johnson, John W. Jones, William Lucas,
Charles F. Mercer, Francis E. Rives, Green B.
Samuels, Lewis Steinrod, John Taliaferro, Henry
A.