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Alexandria Gazette
Alexandria, Alexandria County, District Of Columbia
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Critique of Senator Forsyth's speech defending the Jackson administration's Bank and deposits policy, noting his willingness to support a restricted bank, views on the Bank's electoral powerlessness, and confidence in Biddle's integrity, as reported by the Washington Correspondent of the Pennsylvanian.
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suit the taste of the Kitchen Cabinet folks, at all.
The Washington Correspondent of the Pennsylvanian says:
"Now, between you and me and the post, the
truth of history requires me to confess, that
some parts of the very able speech of Mr. Forsyth
were a little exceptionable and equivocal.
Its general aim was to expose and overthrow in
detail all the grounds of assault which the opposition
had taken against the administration in relation to
its course on the subject of the Bank and the deposits,
and in this object he succeeded to admiration. But he added
that he was prepared to vote to-morrow for a
Bank with proper restrictions, &c. He also
said the election of General Jackson, in spite of
the notorious and undeniable interference, exertions
and influence of the Bank against him, proved to
him that the institution was powerless in elections
by the people. Mr. Forsyth here forgot that we may never have another
Jackson whose popularity and resolution will be sufficient
to stand against it. Mr. F. also expressed his confidence
in the integrity of Mr. Biddle—he did not believe that Mr. B.
and the Directors would attempt to corrupt virtuous men—he
did not believe they could corrupt the press—but he believed
they could and had made use of knaves."
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Mr. Forsyth delivered a speech in the Senate defending the administration's policy on the Bank and deposits, expressing readiness to support a restricted bank, arguing the Bank's powerlessness in elections based on Jackson's victory, and voicing confidence in Mr. Biddle's integrity while believing the Bank uses knaves. The speech is critiqued by the Washington Correspondent of the Pennsylvanian for some equivocal parts and is unpopular with the Kitchen Cabinet.