CHAPTER IV

FINANCIAL AND MORAL CHAOS Like a dropsical man calling out for water, water, our deluded citizens are calling for more banks. (Jefferson.) Merchants are crumbling to ruin, manufactures perishing, agriculture stagnating and distress universal. (John Quincy Adams.) If we can believe our Democratic editors and public declaimers it [Bank of the United States] is a Hydra, a Cerberus, a Gorgon, a Vulture, a Viper. (William Harris Crawford.) Where one prudent and honest man applies for …