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Andrew Jackson and the Bank War

Andrew Jackson and the Bank War. Political Cartoons OPTIC. Major Jack Downing, I must act with energy and decision…You see the downfall of the party engine and corrupt monopoly. …in the affairs of William Shakespeare says…my dear Clay, look out for yourself.

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Andrew Jackson and the Bank War

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  1. Andrew Jackson and the Bank War Political Cartoons OPTIC

  2. Major Jack Downing, I must act with energy and decision…You see the downfall of the party engine and corrupt monopoly. …in the affairs of William Shakespeare says…my dear Clay, look out for yourself. No more fees to be obtained here! I move we adjourn! It is time for me to resign the presidency Help me up, Webster! Or I shall lose my stakes! National Gazette Kentucky Albany Gazette Evening Star Columbian Sentinel Courier & Enquirer $52,000 Journal of Commerce United States Gazette National Intelligence $10,000

  3. "He looks like a "Lion!" How dignified! What "correct“ steps! in such "good time!" Can any thing equal him! The "greatest" and "best" donkey we ever knew!“ "Yankee doodle doodle doo!" "Sing away Major Downing. This is a capital Experiment by the Eternal!" Sly like a fox! "I feel quite at home on this dung heap."

  4. Well done General, Major Jack Downing, Adams, Clay, well done all. I dislike dissentions beyond every thing, for it often compels a man to play a double part, were it only for his own safety. Policy, policy is my motto, but intrigues I cannot countenance Now now you nasty varmint, be you imperishable? I swan Gineral that are beats all I reckon, that’s the horrible wiper wotwommitswenemous heads I guess Biddle thou Monster Avaunt! avaount I say! or by the Great Eternal if thou are true…come on. if thou art false, may the venomous monster turn his dire fang upon thee… PENN $35,000,000

  5. "Why Gineral, I never know'd You was a Doctor before." "What do you say to the application of my Patent American System?" "D--n that Doctor Jackson. This is the effect of his last prescription." At left stand Bank supporters Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and John Calhoun, as physicians in consultation. "No more I ain't Major Downing but I've read the American Family Physician and know what kind of a dose to give to clean out a foul stomach!" "Doctor your American System won't do here. Desperate cases require desperate remedies, a few of the leaden pills of Nullification and some blood taken will suffice." "Alas! Alas! No more fees." "I wonder how a few grains of Common Sense washed down with Boston Particular would do?" Deposits "Oh! dear Nick! I am dreadful sick!" Manhattan Bank Bank of America Mechanics Bank Veto

  6. The fountain from which my current springs or else fries up to be discarded thence Pennsylvania Virginia New York Georgia Thus vaulting ambition doth o’er leap itself and falls on t’other side. Aye, Aye, Major Downing they thought they'd give us a dose of Congress Water, but they find what we're "Bent on" and we've given 'em a hard Poke into the bargain! " . . . Gineral, this is a real shiver de freeze! You've sent Clay to "pot" eny how "nullified Calhoun," made "Webster" a "shuttle cock and busted Biddle's Bank biler! Public confidence in Public funds Foundation for a National Bank The game is up! National Gazette Deposites $20,000,000 Deposites $6,000,000 United we stand, divided I fall. Deposites

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