Speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster, in the Senate of the United States, on the President's Veto of the Bank Bill: July 11, 1832 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster, in the Senate of the United States, on the President's Veto of the Bank Bill: July 11, 1832

I now proceed, Sir, 10 a few remarks upon the President's Constitutional objections to the Bank; and I cannot forbear to say, in regard to them, that he appears to me to have assumed very extraordinary groundseof reasoning. He denies, that the constitutionality of the Bank, is a settled question. If it be not. Will it ever become so, or what disputed question ever can be settled? I have already observed, that for thirty-six years, out of the forty-three, during which the Government has been in be ing, a bank has existed, such as is now proposed to be con tinned.

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